Archive for February 9th, 2005

2005-02-09

Science Needs Help

Filed under: Science — Geoff @ 9:18 pm

Just after posting about Quantum Diaries, I check the news and see an article on science in society in The Independent.

(via NanoBot)

The writer’s three wishes, at least as I understand them, come to:

Educating others that basic science is “universal” and supposedly free of ethical issues until it is applied. (I’m not sure I agree 100%.) Making the [...]

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Quantum Diaries

Filed under: Academia,   Science,   Writing — Geoff @ 8:43 pm

As many people have heard, 2005 is the “Year of Physics,” celebrating the 100th anniversary of Einstein’s three revolutionary papers.

I’ve been really enjoying the Quantum Diaries project, which recruited 28 particle physicists from around the world to write about working as physicists as well as their latest research.

(from site description)

Quantum Diaries aims to put a [...]

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