Condensed concepts

In honour of International Women's Day, I bring to your attention a fascinating recent piece in The Conversation , Who was Amelia Frank?...

This past Monday, May 8, was a public holiday in Queensland, marking Labor Day. I don't know why we don't celebrate it on May 1, but...

 I really liked reading Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi . She is an amazing writer. I recently reread some of it for an extended family bo...

A major challenge for the social sciences is obtaining data that is reliable, gives significant insight, and could be used to test theories....

The physics department at the University of Queensland has just advertised for a junior faculty position in condensed matter. Only applicati...

Every scientist is a person. They have a unique personality and a unique life story. Their family, friends, education, hopes, romances, cult...

My wife and I started watching the series  The Chair , a comedy about an English department in an affluent liberal arts university in the No...

 My wife and I watched the movie, Radioactive , based on the life of Marie Sklodowska Curie.  She was an amazing scientist who showed incred...

The Kondo effect is a paradigm for quantum many-body physics. It has so much: non-perturbative effects, scaling, emergent energy scales, Bet...

Last night I heard a model public lecture about science. The School of Mathematics and Physics at UQ hosted a public lecture at the Queensla...

I enjoyed watching the movie Hidden Figures . It is based on a book that recounts the little-known history of the contributions of three Af...

Each week I read The Economist . Many of their articles feature graphs of social or economic data. To me some of them are just random noise....

For Christmas (two years ago) my sister-in-law gave me a copy of Ava Helen Pauling: Partner, Activist, Visionary by Mina Carson , a histor...

There is a very disturbing article in the New York Times about sexual harassment and discrimination of female scientists and science write...

Today is Ada Lovelace day [I thank Ben Powell for bringing this to my attention] and so I asked myself, "Which woman has made the grea...