Promoting Science and Critical Thinking
Back n March 2012, out of mischief and frustration, Elise Andrew started a Facebook page entitled “I Fucking Love Science”. She was in the final year of her biology degree at the University of Sheffield, “working on my dissertation and procrastinating as much as possible,” when a friend asked her to stop posting science stories on her … Read more
And so now it is the turn of the alchemists, oops sorry, I mean Chemists, to receive an award. What is interesting about this category is that if you look down the list of past winners, you will at best only recognise a few names such as Ernest Rutherford, Marie Curie, and Linus Pauling. Check the rest and … Read more
For myself, today is perhaps a highlight day for this year’s Nobel Prize – it is time for the Physics prize, and that perhaps betrays a slight bias on my part, because the other categories are just as appropriate (apart from “peace”, but I’ll save that rant until later in the week). So why … Read more
It is once again the time of year when the Nobel Prizes are awarded, and so each day this week we will be hearing about an award for one specific category. The roadmap is as follows: Mon 7 Oct – Physiology or Medicine Tues 8 Oct – Physics Wed 9 Oct – Chemistry Thur 10 Oct … Read more
In honour of the International day of coffee, I bring this humble offering to the roasted bean alter … OK, I confess, I’m a few days late, International Coffee day was actually 29th September. Is the 29th Sept really “International Coffee day”, or am I making it up? No, it really was. Says who … … Read more
As I’m sure you are aware, the much-anticipated report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is out (or at least the first of three parts of AR5), and says with 95% certainty, humans are the dominant cause of global warming since the 1950s. I’ll not dig down into the details too much, there … Read more