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The "Phylogeny" of Scientific Life.
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Stopping atoms A "coil-gun" method for slowing atomic beams without lasers, from the Raizen group at Texas

You missed the best quote from the NYT article on the LHC, right at the end:

According to Nima Arkani-Hamed, a particle theorist at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton,

"because of the dice-throwing nature of quantum physics, there was some probability of almost anything happening. There is some minuscule probability, he said, 'the Large Hadron Collider might make dragons that might eat us up.'"