Blogs about Science

Here are some lines Sylvia Plath never wrote: The air is thick with tension, My mind is a tangled mess, The weight of my emotions Is heavy on my chest. This apparently Plath-like verse was …

“You pant after the garlic and melons of Egypt and have already long suffered from perverted tastes.” “Bembo is a serif typeface created by the British branch of the Monotype Corporation in 1928–1929 and most …

Adam Mastroianni writes: I [Mastroianni] have talked to a lot of folks about how to fix science. . . . Strangely often, I’ll be talking to someone about all the problems with academic science and …

A more accurate description of this post would be, seeking a single, simple cause for the combined effect of many factors. But this would be a very cumbersome heading. Let’s look at an everyday example: …

The Pope of Physics is a 2016 biography of Enrico Fermi (1901-1954), written by Gino Segre and Bettina Hoerlin. Segre's uncle Emilio was a student of Fermi's in Rome, whereas Hoerlin's father knew Fermi from …