Weasels in the Large Hadron Collider, and self-throwing dead cats

Scientists deployed a new political technology twice this week, to spectacular effect

On Thursday I was on BBC Radio 4's Inside Science, discussing with Adam Rutherford some excitement around the new data from CERN's Large Hadron Collider. Under his newly-invented 'Cloak of Speculation', we mused as to whether the currently statistically-marginal blip might develop into the first evidence for a new particle, perhaps some kinds of heavier version of the Higgs boson, or maybe even some kind of graviton looped over higher dimensions of spacetime. You can listen to us here.

Eventually, someone is going to ask 'Who threw the dead cat?'