Category: Science

  • 26/02/2021
    Or not, as the case may be. Smallpox is the greatest success story in the history of medicine. It once…
  • 01/02/2021
    What my retraction taught me In the middle of the pandemic, I got an e-mail asking whether I had access…
  • 21/01/2021
    STEM stupidity Stupid | No Mercy / No Malice Mark Zuckerberg is what happens when you replace civics with computer…
  • 11/01/2021
    Originality is usually off track How mRNA went from a scientific backwater to a pandemic crusher | WIRED UK For…
  • 16/11/2020
    The history of science is the history of rejected ideas (and manuscripts). One example I always come back to is…
  • 02/11/2020
    From this week’s Economist | Breaking through Yet nowhere too little capital is being channelled into innovation. Spending on R&D…
  • 28/10/2020
    I came across a note in my diary from around fifteen years ago. It was (I assume) after receiving a…
  • 06/10/2020
    Nice article in the Economist on how our ideas about speciation have been revised and updated. And not just for…
  • 03/10/2020
    That “scientific management” bungled the algorithm for children’s exam results, verifies a maxim attributed to J.R. Searle, an American philosopher:…
  • 29/09/2020
    Alas, there will no more new ones of these, as arguably the greatest of modern biology’s experimentalists, Sydney Brenner, passed…