is it cold in here?
[Originally posted at our new home at Scientific American.] Last week, Linda Henneberg, a young science communication intern at CERN in Switzerland — best known …
Culture of physics
two magesteria In the courtroom
Three years before he died, paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould, one of my favorite popularizers of science, published a book called Rocks of Ages: Science and …
physicists put on their poker face
Jen-Luc Piquant has donned her poker face today and for good reason. This morning the Spousal Unit was chuffed to find his latest online issue …
a lab of their own
Well after Groundhog Day, the cocktail party's founder, long in absentia, emerges from under her nice shady rock, rubs her eyes and blinks in the …
by invitation only
I thought I'd start out the new year with a little old news and and old, old rant. Just let me just get on my …
paradigm shift
If it's Saturday, it must be — um, Palo Alto? Seriously, October has been so crazed that I had to think a moment when I …
a thousand paper cuts
It’s a rare occasion when I go off on a bona fide rant, but I feel I must say something to the physics community, solely …
genie in a bottle
One of Val Kilmer’s less stellar roles was as Simon Templar in 1997’s The Saint. Templar is a master thief and master of disguise who …
just don’t quote me
There’s a fascinating discussion over at Tara’s place regarding scientists and their frequent reluctance to answer interview requests from the media. I commented on this …
he said, she said
Ooh! Blog fight! Several folks over at ScienceBlogs are in a tizzy over a post by Razib at Gene Expressions, who expressed his surprise at …