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This article also has two embedded videos that are pretty good on Higgs
http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/brainiac/2012/07/the_higgs_boson.htmlThank goodness for this fantastic video from Jorge Cham of Ph.D. Comics and CERN physicist Daniel Whiteson. It does a great job explaining (a) what exactly the Higgs Boson is and (b) how it fits into the larger quest to understand the fundamental building blocks of matter.