Next academic year it looks likely that I will, for the first time, be teaching some thermodynamics. Then we will have new software that will allow us to offer an annotated list of links to books, webpages, YouTube videos, etc, integrated into the homepage of the course. One of my fave cool thermodynamic effects is […]
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Over the weekend, I read the previous entry on this blog. It’s a post by my ex-PhD Student Emma, who having done a PhD in theoretical nuclear physics here at Surrey, is now working in climate change analysis at the London School of Economics. One shouldn’t really be surprised to find physicists in such places. […]
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One of the ways of distinguishing between good science, and poor quality science and pseudo-science, is that good science leads to predictions that can be tested by experiments. Poor quality and pseudo-science does not. For example, we know there will be an eclipse of the Sun visible from parts of Europe on March 20th 2015. […]
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This post was inspired by a Guardian article about the American University Harvard (probably the world’s richest university) announcing that “Major Periodical Subscriptions Cannot Be Sustained” by which they mean that the journals (aka periodicals) where academics like me publish our research results are getting so expensive that Harvard can no longer afford them.
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