This week I saw the excellent documentary Particle Fever, about the discovery of the Higgs particle by physicists at CERN. It's an absorbing story about a few personalities involved, and along the way they provide meaning and context to the discovery for viewers like me who do not know much about particle physics. The editor is the extraordinary Walter Murch (edited Apocalypse Now, The Godfather, English Patient, and more) and it shows - see my post about him from March 2, 2014. The film is another instance where the filmmakers have taken a very complex and abstract topic and opened it up to a wider audience.