Having been back at work a month, holidays are now seeming like a long time to go. This year I went to Tanzania and climbed Kilimanjaro (it’s always good to have a nice restful holiday to set yourself up for the next term). I hadn’t really looked into this before I left, assuming it would […]
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You might be tempted to think that some multinational oil companies think that the global warming is not occurring. Particularly if you read articles like this one in The Guardian. It covers the oil company ExxonMobil funding a climate-change-sceptic, who seems to make a living attacking the scientific consensus that our world is getting warmer. […]
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A lot of science can be relatively quiet, perhaps even staid, but some topics can cause things to kick off. So-called alternative medicine (acupuncture, homeopathy, etc) is one of them. A couple of papers in the British Journal of General Practice have been the cause of no fewer than 10 (count ’em here) letters to […]
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Five years ago Amanda Page (then my PhD student) and I published a paper (free pdf here) that was computational statistical physics but was inspired by the problem of protein crystallisation. It is one of my favourite papers. An hour ago I got some automated email saying that another paper had cited this work of […]
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