The coverage of the Higgs in the press has been abysmal. This lecture from UCSB will actually give you some idea of what the Higgs is all about. The Inevitability of the Higgs Nima Arkani-Hamed, IAS & KITP Here's the web page for the UCSB KITP series: http://online.itp.ucsb.edu/online/bblunch/ Here's the web page for this particular talk: http://online.itp.ucsb.edu/online/bblunch/arkanihamed2/ Here's the download link for the full-motion video: http://online.itp.ucsb.edu/download/bblunch/arkanihamed2/snd/Arkanihamed2_Bl... I don't know if this file is corrupted or whether I had an error while downloading, but my downloaded video failed after about 60 minutes into this 80-minute video. Here's the download link for the 3 frames-per-minute video: http://online.itp.ucsb.edu/download/bblunch/arkanihamed2/snd/Arkanihamed2_Bl... Note that the VideoLAN "VLC" player will not play this video correctly; you have to use Apple Quicktime player (either Mac or Windows). Even iTunes won't play it correctly. VLC will play the sound, but I found the pictures necessary to understand what was going on.