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The Higgs Boson Walks Into a Church…

In honor of Peter Higgs and Francois Englert being awarded the Nobel Prize in physics 48 years after they predicted the existence of the Higgs Boson, here’s all I have to say on the matter: To see the joke in action/context, here’s a stand up routine of mine that’s been online since 2009.

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In honor of Peter Higgs and Francois Englert being awarded the Nobel Prize in physics 48 years after they predicted the existence of the Higgs Boson, here's all I have to say on the matter:

To see the joke in action/context, here's a stand up routine of mine that's been online since 2009. I was performing in a long-running Bay Area science festival called Wonderfest. The Higgs joke appears toward the end:


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EDIT: Strangely, the embedded version is only 10 minutes long - and the full set is 17. To see the Higgs joke, watch the whole set at Fora.TV.

Science Laughs: Science Comedian Brian Malow from Wonderfest on FORA.tv

In addition to performing and giving science communication talks for NSF, AAAS, NASA, NIST, ACS and other acronyms, Brian Malow has produced science videos for Time magazine and audio pieces for Neil deGrasse Tyson's StarTalk radio show. He has blogged for Scientific American and worked in science communications at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences. He can be found as @sciencecomedianScienceComedian.com.

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