The eV scale

It would be a worthy achievement to build a MONDian superfluid from eV-scale sterile neutrinos.

Higgs criticality from inflation

Skimming a paper on "the quantum critical Higgs", that eschews theorizing about the mechanism of this quantum criticality, I wonder... could inflation itself ever be a quantum phase transition ending at a critical point? This comes to mind because the observed Higgs boson mass doesn't just place the electroweak vacuum at the edge of stability, it is also close to a lower limit below which Higgs inflation isn't possible.

Leptophobia returns

Via Lubos, a detector anomaly with a leptophobic explanation. But I expect that it's a false alarm. No end to austerity yet!