Saturday, October 20, 2012

The Higgs boson in social context

A week ago I gave a talk "The Higgs Boson: scientific reality vs. media hype" at the Centre for Science, Religion, and Society at Emmanuel College at UQ. You can see the slides on my other blog.
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