I was helping a PhD student of mine with a talk yesterday. I was doing the usual stuff, saying you basically want one slide per minute of your talk, that it should tell a story, just make a few points clearly, not try and make too many points and confuse the audience, etc. I am […]
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We humans are keen both on controlling our environment (building houses, central heating etc), and on moving about (planes, trains and automobiles). We are not the only species to do some of this, beaver build dams, bees build hives, many birds migrate, etc. Friends at Surrey, Joe, and Bath, Douglas, independently drew my attention to […]
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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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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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