I had the idea for a book about the discovery of the Higgs boson in March 2010, just as CERN’s Large Hadron Collider was setting a new world record for particle collision energy. I figured that there was a chance that this particle - the last missing piece in the jigsaw of the Standard Model of particle physics – might be discovered soon. But the question was: How soon?

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Immigration affects different parts of the workforce differently. Over the period we consider, there have been gainers and losers and while the gainers may have outnumbered the losers and the gains may have been positive on average, the losers tend to have been lower down the wage distribution than the gainers.