Elitism

In grad school, many people seemed intellectually curious.  Here, it seems, siggnificantly less so - and it is kind of disturbing.  Researchers, with PhDs in physics, really shouldn't complain about news coverage for the Higgs boson, and really shouldn't say that such research is pointless.  We should celebrate all scientific achievements and understand that the microcosms that we choose to work on (or are coerced into working on by whatever circumstances) are not more important than some other microcosm.  Not everybody can directly work on everything, but everyone should be aware of what is out there and what remains to be discovered, especially for the bigger-picture items.  That's part of being a good scientist.