Really quickly... Gawker has awesome pictures of a bug approaching one metre long.
The Sun isn't my favourite British tabloid. That honour of course goes to the Daily Mail. But the Sun does have this excellent scoop on a Chinese farmer with a terrible problem.
And the Large Hadron Collider, that Geneva particle accelerator some people think will create an earth gobbling black hole, has reached full power. It's a story I've covered several times. The big day was today.
Next post? A story on Switzerland, the EU and Libya.
In August, I travelled to where Geneva meets France and had a look at the world's largest particle accelerator. The Large Hadron Collider started up last September and went temporarily out of service on September 19.
Collider "not going to become a white elephant"
September should have been a happy first anniversary for the physicists pulling subatomic secrets out of the Large Hadron Collider.
They have spent much of the past year repairing it instead. Buried on the outskirts of Geneva beneath Swiss and French soil rests the world's largest soon-to-be-working particle accelerator.
On Friday, the European Organization for Nuclear Research (Cern), the group that developed the LHC, said the repairs cost nearly SFr35 million ($34 million).
The machine, the most powerful of its kind, was designed to recreate the conditions of the universe at its earliest, most violent stage of infancy.
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