A few days ago I got a message from my mate Jorge Soto… always great to hear from him, particularly with New Year wishes and even better with an interesting question: The question is related… Read More »Harvesting magnetic fields…
The misuse of maths in psychology “Think positively!” – a seemingly innocuous remark you might hear every so often… you might have even read it in one of those self-help books, or even from renowned… Read More »Wishful thinking or The Misuse of Maths in Psychology
IoP Talk announced: Thoery, model and simulation: An involved association Jan 29th 2014, 19.00-20.00
Newsblog: Readers choice of 2013 : Nature News & Comment. Keeping up with the well-established tradition of year-end lists, here is one from Nature’s blog: 1. Experiments reveal that crabs and lobsters feel pain 7… Read More »Nature’s Readers choice of 2013
Born on December 3rd 180 years ago, Carlos Juan Finlay is the man who came up with the theory that yellow fever was spread by mosquitoes. Glad to see that a Google Doodle can help… Read More »Google Doodle – Carlos Juan Finlay
The Way of All Flesh by Adam Curtis: a one-hour BBC documentary on Henrietta Lacks and HeLa directed by Adam Curtis. It won the Best Science and Nature Documentary at the San Francisco International Film Festival.… Read More »The Way of All Flesh
I had the chance to go to the premier of Gravity during the London Film Festival last Thursday. I was not expecting the red carpet treatment and the after-screening party, but hey… who am I… Read More »Gravity
This is a re-blog of “What Science’s “Sting Operation” Reveals” by Kausik Datta in Scilogs. What Science’s “Sting Operation” Reveals: Open Access Fiasco or Peer Review Hellhole? 4 October 2013 by Kausik Datta, The science-associated blogosphere… Read More »What Science’s “Sting Operation” reveals – reblog
So, the 2013 Nobel Prize in physics has been announced. I was surprised they did go for the Higgs, given the potential controversies. In any case, congratulations to Peter Higgs and François Englert for their… Read More »A massive achievement – 2013 Nobel prize in physics
I was listening last week to the “More or Less” podcast with Tim Harford, which by the way is one of my favourite Radio 4 programmes and I highly recommend it. In the programme they… Read More »Hawthorne Effect