What went wrong at the Large Hadron Collider

Brian Cox: Physicist

Based at the University of Manchester, Brian Cox works at CERN in Geneva on the ATLAS experiment, studying the forward proton detectors for the Large Hadron Collider there. He's a professor at the University of Manchester, working in the High Energy Physics group, and is a research fellow of the Royal Society.

Source : TED

This may be slightly off topic, but the Daily Show did an interesting piece on the LHC last night:
Daily Show - LHC

Evidently the LHC has just come back 'on-line' after the repairs mentioned in the OP clip.

This may be why it's getting some media play right now ...