Two intriguing links that appeared in my Inbox today, one in prose and the other in photos…

The first is a short article summarising the religious import of the Higgs Boson particle:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/philip-clayton-phd/relationship-between-scie_b_1653976.html

The other is from the wonderful blog of Jake Davis who has been exploring offbeat parts of Japan and came across a ‘plethora of phalli’ at a site that counts itself a Shinto shrine:
see here

From ultra-modern to mankind’s earliest preoccupations, Shinto covers them all !