Category: Science

  • 25/09/2020
    In my ignorance I had always assumed that the ‘Haldane’ of the Haldane Principle1 referred to the great and singular…
  • 03/08/2020
    I procured me a Triangular glass-Prisme, to try therewith the celebrated Phenomena of Colours. And in order thereto having darkened…
  • 29/07/2020
    Today many scientists describe their research as apolitical, but Haldane knew that was impossible: ‘I began to realise that even…
  • 16/07/2020
    “I hope the lesson will really be that we can’t afford as a society to create the fire brigade once…
  • 06/07/2020
    Two nice quotes from Paul Romer about his paper Mathiness in the Theory of Economic Growth The alternative to science…
  • 22/06/2020
    Freeman Dyson died February 28th this year. There are many obituaries of this great mind and eternal rebel. His book,…
  • 16/06/2020
    Its natural, Jim. From an obituary of Julian Perry Robinson in Nature Julian Perry Robinson (1941–2020) In 1981, the US…
  • 09/06/2020
    The Nobel laureate David Hubel commented somewhere that reading most modern scientific papers was like chewing sawdust. Certainly it is…
  • 18/05/2020
    Education is intellectual infrastructure.  So is science.  They have very high yield, but delayed payback.  Hasty societies that can't span…
  • 24/04/2020
    Some non-covid-19 recreational reading. Although the bees might be here longer than us.. Hive Mentalities | by Tim Flannery |…