I have just got back from co-chairing a scientific workshop in Switzerland. It was great, hard work, but great. Togther with the other workshop chair, Paddy Royall, we had invited scientists to come from places as far away as Tokyo in Japan, and Houghton, which is a small city on Lake Superior on the border […]
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It’s coursework deadline time in the Department. So this week I read and suggested corrections on a draft of a student’s report that is due in on Monday. One of my corrections was that the student should cite the source of a graph he had reproduced in one of the report’s figures. He had cited […]
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Since its discovery by the Swiss astronomer Fritz Zwicky in the 1930’s, dark matter has continued to capture the public imagination. It raises the velocity of stars and gas in galaxies, bends light around massive galaxy clusters and promotes the growth of structure in the Universe. Recent results from the “bullet cluster” suggest that dark […]
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Like me you are probably not a regular reader of Blood – a medical journal dedicated to the diseases of the red stuff – but perhaps you should make an exception for a recent article. It is easily accessible to everyone, there is minimal jargon, and it is powerful stuff. It is written by over 100 […]
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“I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. Twenty six times, I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.” – Michael Jordan. This is one of my all time […]
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As I am wont to do, I listened to the 6:30pm Radio 4 comedy program this evening. It was an enjoyable, and mostly erudite program called The Manifesto. It featured a comedian asking audience members to come up with ideas of what they would suggest for a political manifesto if they were standing for election. […]
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