Tag Archives: blue sky research
Quasiparticles do the twist
Physics often involves hidden surprises in how matter behaves at the smallest scales. A fundamental property in physics is angular momentum, which describes how things spin or rotate, from planets all the way down to particles. Angular momentum is involved … Continue reading
Posted in Scicomm, Science
Tagged angular momentum, blue sky research, centrosymmetry, chiral crystals, Debye temperature, Einstein-de Haas effect, phonons, quasiparticles, tellurium, torque
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On the 2024 Nobel Prizes and the Rosalind Lee issue
The Nobel Prizes are a deeply flawed institution both out of touch with science as it is done today and with an outsized influence on scientific practice at the most demanding levels. Yet these relationships all persist with the prizes … Continue reading
Posted in Analysis, Science
Tagged blue sky research, Gary Ruvkun, Matilda effect, Matthew effect, microRNA, Newcomb Cleveland Prize, Nobel Prize, Nobel Prizes, physics, Rosalind Lee, science communication, Victor Ambros
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Review: ‘Oppenheimer’ (2023)
Oppenheimer was great. I really liked it. I don’t have a review as much as some notes that I took during the film that I’d like to share. But before diving into them, I should say that I got a … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Science
Tagged atomic bombings, blue sky research, Edward Teller, George Kistiyakowsky, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Kenneth Bainbridge, Leslie Groves, Lewis Strauss, Los Alamos, Manhattan Project, nuclear weapons, Oppenheimer, Robert Serber, Trinity test, Vannevar Bush
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Reimagining science, redux
This article on Founding Fuel has some great suggestions I thought, but it merits sharing with a couple caveats. First, in narratives about making science “easier to do”, commentators give science-industry linkages more play than science-society ones. This has been true in the … Continue reading
Posted in Science
Tagged billion candles, blue sky research, Hoshangabad Science Teaching Programme, Indian Institutes of Science Education and Research, Mukund Thattai, nation building, Nobel Prize, science and society, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar
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