April 2012
42 posts
“Since her death in 1979, the woman who discovered what the universe is made of...”
– Jeremy Knowles, discussing the complete lack of recognition Cecilia Payne gets, even today, for her revolutionary discovery. (via alliterate)
From Wikipedia:
She correctly suggested that silicon, carbon, and other common metals seen in the Sun were found in about the same relative amounts as on...
A Challenge to Make Science Crystal Clear →
At 11, Alan Alda was fascinated by the colorful, translucent undulations of a burning flame.
So he asked his teacher, “What is a flame?”
“It’s oxidation,” she said.
The answer dumbfounded him. A flame is indeed oxidation, a type of chemical reaction that occurs when something burns. But the word did not capture why a flame burns orange or why it produces heat, or anything else that the young...
“The discovery of the Higgs boson would be a gratifying verification of present...”
– The Crisis of Big Science - by Steven Weinberg
via The New York Review of Books
This is a must-read take on the crisis of funding Big Science. From Ernest Rutherford’s £70 discovery of the atomic nucleus to the £6.2 billion Large Hadron Collider, science has pushed the envelope of knowledge and...
“Now a sometimes almost unrecognisable Rosalind has been put on an unrealistic...”
– Jenifer Glynn - Remembering My Sister Rosalind Franklin : (The Lancet)
Jenifer Glynn has a new book out recounting the life and work of Rosalind Franklin from a sister’s perspective. Rosalind Franklin was thrust into a position as heroine of the “downtrodden woman scientist, brilliant but...
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