The physics news in August have so far disappointed me, with the only remarkable one being the sad departure of Nicola Cabibbo. After ICHEP 2010, with the frenzy of paper production that has characterized the month of July in all major particle physics experiments, it was easy to predict a slower pace. So I did not lose too much, apparently, by spending four weeks in Greece and one week in the Italian Alps.

But effective today, I am back in business. This means no more four-day hiatuses in updates of my blog (due to the trouble with accessing the web from the remote locations I have confined myself in), and a more effective coverage of news from the world of High-Energy Physics.

It also means that I will try to get back to my usual attention in answering comments in the threads -something which I had warned the more attentive readers about, as I left for holidays.

One of the things I want to do after this refreshing pause in my research activities is to prepare a course on Subnuclear Physics for 5th year undergraduates. I will give the course this fall, and this constitutes both a burden and a stimulus for me. The course will cover:

- weak interactions
- QCD rudiments
- the standard model
- collider physics
- hints at physics beyond the standard model

and a few other things. I hope to be able to paste here some of the ideas and material that I will prepare for the course, in the next couple of months.  So if you are interested, stay tuned!