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This week, we\u2019re dusting off the ol\u2019 particle physics PhD to bring you an episode about ambitious new model-agnostic searches for new particles happening at CERN. Traditionally, new particles have been discovered by \u201ctargeted searches,\u201d where scientists have a hypothesis about the particle they\u2019re looking for and where it might be found. However, with the huge amounts of data coming out of CERN, a new type of broader search algorithm is starting to be deployed. It\u2019s a strategy that casts a very wide net, looking in many different places at the same time, which also introduces all kinds of interesting questions\u2014even a one-in-a-thousand occurrence happens when you\u2019re looking in many thousands of places.