Yesterday morning, the first proton beams took a few laps around the Large Hadron Collider. On the Mental_floss blog, I explained the physics that will save us from black holes and the fail safes that will save us from technical glitches.

If the fact that the Earth isn’t going to be destroyed by the LHC isn’t reason enough to celebrate, then we have these lil’ guys…

Cuter than the real hypothetical ones and you can snuggle with them without having to build a particle accelerator in your bedroom.