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In a time when misunderstandings of science anti-science views are rising around the world, it is important that scientists do a better job ...

Which scientist had the greatest political influence of all time? the greatest influence on government policy? Oppenheimer? Any suggestions...

My apologies to readers who saw the draft beginnings of this post. I mistakenly posted it rather than saving it as a draft. Quite embarrassi...

Previously I posted about The Two Cultures of C.P. Snow who noted how the academic cultures of science and the humanities diverged in the t...

In a previous post The importance of being stupid! I highlighted the point that doing significant research is really hard. Doing signific...

Fifty years ago this month, the novelist (and physicist) C.P. Snow gave what has been described as "one of the most influential lectur...