Meet Dr. Strangelove

As we prepare to flip the switch on our own doomsday machine, a.k.a. the Large Hadron Collider, isn’t it wonderful to know that the man behind it all had a penchant for “blowing things up as a child“?

But on a more serious note, the scientific press would do well to remember that experiments like these can be just as important for what they don’t find as they are for what they do find.