China pursues 52 km collider project – physicsworld.com
Now *this* is very exciting to me!
China pursues 52 km collider project – physicsworld.com
China pursues 52 km collider project – physicsworld.com
Now *this* is very exciting to me!
Forging a Career in Academia
This is a very clear comment by a friend and ex-colleague of mine about the difficulties of working in scientific academia.
It’s something I ponder about a lot. I expect moving to China halfway through step 4 may make it all the harder, but here’s hoping!
What the Tamiflu saga tells us about drug trials and big pharma
What the Tamiflu saga tells us about drug trials and big pharma
This is an example of why openness and transparency in research benefit all society.
Relativistic Baseball
Ask a silly question…
Nobel Prize for Physics
Can scientists be social?
Yesterday I wrote about my quest to find good ways of reading the articles and other content I need for my research, and talked about the two tools Flipboard and Pocket that can make this a bit easier.
The next thing I’m looking for is a way to discover the papers and articles that I should be reading but just don’t know about. At the moment I do this manually by subscribing to journals and news services that I then flip through with Flipboard to find something interesting.
Keeping up with reading
One of the things I find hardest about being a scientist is keeping up-to-date with all the latest research. A number of times I’ve worked on some problem for days, weeks and even months before finding out that someone else has already solved the problem!
I’ve started looking to internet tools to help me keep up to date. My favourite two at the moment are Flipboard and Pocket.
Science’s function is to describe processes, but it cannot pronounce on the purpose of things. Physicists and biologists have a right to say that in looking at matter and life scientifically, no evident purpose is discovered. They overstep their limits if they go on to require faith in pure chance as opposed to faith in a creator. In any decision which may have to be made between faith in God or in ‘blind chance’, the science of evolution is strictly neutral, and cannot be anything else.
“Origins of Religion” by Robert Brow
in “The World’s Religions: A Lion Handbook”. Ed by R Pierce Beaver, Tring: Lion, 1982.1st Ed. pp.30–34
in “The World’s Religions: A Lion Handbook”. Ed by R Pierce Beaver, Tring: Lion, 1982.1st Ed. pp.30–34