Majorana 1, science journalism, and other things
While I have many issues with how the Nobel Prizes are put
Nobel Prizes
On the 2024 Nobel Prizes and the Rosalind Lee issue
The Nobel Prizes are a deeply flawed institution both out of touch
Numbed by numbers
Couple things in my news feed this morning that really woke me
The question of Abdus Salam 'deserving' his Nobel
Peter Woit has blogged about an oral history interview with theoretical physicist
Hail the Royal Society
It’s an underappreciated form of our colonial hangover when a body
The paradoxical virtues of primacy in science
The question of “Who found it first?” in science is deceptively straightforward.
Marie Curie: An icon or 'in the way'?
Who would have been the most iconic woman physicist of all time
Science prizes, wealth location and social signals
One count on which I almost always find myself to be an
Caste, and science's notability threshold
A webinar by The Life of Science on the construct of the
Review: ‘Salam – The First ****** Nobel Laureate’ (2018)
Awards are elevated by their winners. For all of the Nobel Prizes’
Two sides of the road and the gutter next to it
I have a mid-October deadline for an essay so obviously when I
Why do we cover the Nobel Prize announcements?
The Nobel Prizes are too big to fail. Even if they’ve
