I imagine everyone has been posting about this today. There’s a media frenzy about a scientific endeavour, how cool is that?

Except for the fact that the media has, by and large, given far too much room to uneducated and highly-opinioned idiots claiming the world will end. I don’t mind a bit of joking about it, that’s a healthy stand to take – mocking our fear of new things – it’s human nature… 

I think it’s also human nature, these days, to try and stop everything with a court case.

There have even been death threats aimed at the scientists. That’s appalling behaviour. Aside from there being no justification, or point, in threatening another human being in this way, it also suggests that these scientists would be reckless enough to risk their own existence and that of their family and friends on an experiment.

Poor show.

The big problem however is what happens now. Science is a marathon, punctuated by moments of revelation. It’s going to be months before we (obviously, not me, but my people) find anything interesting. The media really doesn’t work on that timescale anymore. Try minutes… try now.

I like to think of it like Christmas as a child… I’ll be waiting and hoping until it arrives… it’s going to seem like forever, and I might even lose a little sleep over it. And if the present turns out to be an Action Man instead of a Transformer, I’ll be happy anyway, because the LHC has brought science back into focus in a time where fear and ignorance are running the show.

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On a less sciency note, I’ve made a mix tape – The lovely folks at Moue Magazine post a weekly compilation, and this week it’s one of mine. I tried to theme it – all of the songs remind me of Lancaster, in one way or another… and so that is my question today – which song reminds you of your home town?