I can’t leave the writing of all our departmental blogs to my colleagues, particularly Dr Sear, so I thought I would chip in with a brief report on my recent event with Professor Brian Cox.
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You are near perfect in some ways, ridiculously inefficient in others
A few years ago I did some research modelling evolution. A lot of the modelling of evolution is done by physicists not biologists, as we have more of the quantitative modelling and computational skills. One of the things I was looking at was the question of how good evolution is. Basically: Can evolution produce perfection, […]
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Is A level science really science?
Today I was proofreading a fold out card of handy formulas for A level physics students. Ohm’s law, Newton’s law of gravity etc. Useful formula but carefully checking dozens of them was very tedious. I also read the Nobel Laureate Prof Sir Harry Kroto’s latest polemic. Basically, he says that science is not a set of […]
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The calm before the storm
Ever since I graduated, I’ve been quite fond of May. It’s a nice quiet month in the University, good for getting things done, and the weather is often nice. Obviously during my degree, I appreciated very little of this as I spent every second in the library trying desperately to pass my exams and the […]
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