Showing posts with label nature. Show all posts
Showing posts with label nature. Show all posts
Friday, 29 September 2023

Science’s big problem(s)

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Anyone who follows this blog (you know who you are) will have noticed the concentration of late on non-science topics. So I thought it was w...
Monday, 12 March 2018

The insufficiency of science

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There are scientists who talk about a “theory of everything” although it turns out they do not literally mean a theory of “everything”. Th...
Saturday, 16 December 2017

On understanding pencils…..

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Consider the humble pencil. For those poor souls born in the internet age who may not be familiar with them, the pencil is a wooden cyli...
Monday, 17 July 2017

The Faith in Science

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The blogosphere is a big and diverse place. There's all sorts of stuff out there (and here). One could spend one's life navigating i...
Saturday, 24 June 2017

Back to that chasm....

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The Nature Editorial that I was reflecting on recently, prompted other responses published in the correspondence section of the journal it...
Monday, 29 May 2017

A chasm … that cannot be bridged?

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These days, not being a cosmologist, materials scientist or molecular biologist, the only bits of “Nature” I read with any expectation o...
Saturday, 5 March 2016

On “Moralistic gods” – at least we're taking them seriously now

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Usually when the subject of religion crops up in Nature (the top ranking scientific journal), it’s because some perceived great obscurantis...