Tabitha M. Powledge quotes Faye Flam's headline on the challenge of reporting last week's big physics news: "How to write a lede about a phenomenon most readers have never heard of, the discovery of which backs an important theory most people know nothing about." She then reviews the work of those who tried, noting that most set skepticism aside: "Nearly all the blogging acknowledged perfunctorily that the data need confirming, but there seemed to be few true doubters."
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