Higgs Boson Humorists Get Mass Following

Higgs Boson Humorists Get Mass Following

Higgs humor has humbled me.

I thought I’d nailed it, when I wrote what could be the first original Higgs Boson joke ever here.

But since this week’s announcement that the Higgs particle has been found, there’s been a wave of Higgs humor on Twitter, a lot of it curated by Boing Boing’s Xeni Jardin, whose battle with breast cancer led her to tweet: “Gonna start calling my post-mastectomy, science-rebuilt cyberboob the “Higgs Bosom.”

To be funny about something you usually have to understand it well.

But sometimes it’s the difficulty of understanding something that makes it funny.

 

Michael Schulder: From a Researcher at ABC News; To a Writer at The MacNeil-Lehrer Newshour on PBS; To my five years as a Writer for Peter Jennings at ABC World News Tonight; And 17 years as a Senior Executive Producer at CNN.

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