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Redeeming art v. redeeming science
Recently, someone shared the cover of a soon to be released book, entitled The Physics of Climate Change, authored by Lawrence M. Krauss and expressed excitement about the book’s impending publication and the prospect of their reading it. I instinctively … Continue reading
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Tagged diversity, Enrico Feri, Erik Shapiro, Geoffrey Marcy, Georges Lemaître, Jeffrey Epstein, Lawrence Krauss, passing the trash, Richard Feynman, separate art from artist, separate scholar from scholarship, sexual harassment, social anthropology
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Science and the scientist
Didier Queloz and Michel Mayor won the 2019 Nobel Prize for physics for discovering a famous exoplanet (51 Pegasi b) in 1995. Their claim was first verified by a top astronomer at the time named Geoff Marcy. He was later … Continue reading
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Tagged 51 Pegasi b, Azeen Ghorayshi, Didier Queloz, Geoff Marcy, John B Goodenough, lithium-ion batteries, Michel Mayor, Nobel Prize for Chemistry, Nobel Prize for physics, sexual harassment
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Some thoughts on the Mack/Dorigo Twitter exchange, and Zivkovic, Feyerabend, etc.
Aspirants flock to role models. The ‘underlying human’ must not jeopardise their conversation by being a dick. Continue reading
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Tagged Bora Zivkovic, gender, Geoff Marcy, incommensurability, Katherine Mack, Paul Feyerabend, privilege, sexism, sexual harassment, sexuality, Tommaso Dorigo, women in STEM
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Geoff Marcy
About a week go, NASA announced the 20th anniversary of the discovery of the first exoplanet, and all I could do was think of the amazing Geoff Marcy. When it comes to exoplanet astronomy and the hunt for these objects, … Continue reading
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Tagged Geoff Marcy, sexual harassment, University of California Berkeley
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‘No need to defend me.’
No need to defend me. Kudos to @monicabyrne13 and @hannahjwaters for having the courage to speak up. I was wrong. I am sorry. I am learning. — Bora Zivkovic (@BoraZ) October 16, 2013 While studying at the Asian College of … Continue reading
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Tagged Bora Zivkovic, sexual harassment
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