I’m sure that most of you have heard about CERN’s Higgs Boson discovery by now. Today‘s announcement was a historic moment for physicists and physics enthusiasts everywhere. As a result, anyone in the twittersphere/blogoshere/web with even the mildest interest in science seems to have caught Higgs-fever. The resulting web chatter is an interesting (AND RARE!) illustration of the clash between pop culture and physics.

In honour of this historic day in Science with a capital “S,” I thought I would share some of my top picks of Higgs-related images, articles, and videos that have been circulation around the interwebs today.

1. Want to be a famous physicist? You have to make sense of THIS first.

Image credit: Science Friday’s Ira Flatow

2. Tyson, you make me higgle.

Click here to see more noteworthy (and hilarious) Higgs-related tweets.

3. How to get the Nerd Community in a Tizzy: Use Comic Sans

The CERN presentation slides featured some rather large and abundant Comic Sans font, something to which many “serious” scientists objected.

Personally, I rather enjoyed this immense display of gauche geekery.

Slide used in CERN presentation of Higgs Boson discovery prominently featuring unpopular Comic sans font

Read more about the “unfortunate” font choice here.

Science Video of the Week

The Higgs discovery means Stephen Hawking, world-renowned physicist, lost a $100 bet.

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