Science, History, and Fiction in Everyday Life
Donna Strickland, from Canada, was awarded today the Prize for her outstanding contributions in the field of laser physics. In case you wonder, Mrs. Strickland is the third woman EVER to get such honour. Before her, only Marie Curie (1903) and…
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One friend asked me this very question a couple of days ago, and I have to say I didn’t know how to answer. Sure I had blogs I read every week, had I not? Good observation. But, as a matter…
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Teaser Tuesday is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Books and a Beat. Anyone can play along! Just do the following: • Grab your current read • Open to a random page • Share two (2) “teaser” sentences…
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Teaser Tuesday is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of A Daily Rhythm. Anyone can play along! Just do the following: • Grab your current read • Open to a random page • Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from…
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This is definitively the year of bacteria in terms of scientific discovery and ground-breaking experiments. It was only a few months ago that a new strand of DNA was engineered in a lab, creating an organism with semi-synthetic (“alien”) DNA. And it’s…
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Seven Modern Plagues and How We are Causing Them, by the journalist, academic and veterinarian Mark Jerome Walters, is the updated version of his famous and well-regarded Six Modern Plagues and How We are Causing Them, published in 2004. To the…
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In what seems more the plot of a SF novel than a scientific discovery, a new strand of DNA has recently been engineered in a lab (http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v509/n7500/full/nature13314.html). The headlines have defined it “alien DNA”, technically a misnomer for what the…
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Writing a summary of the human civilisation that spans from the Australopitecus and its peers to the moment history truly starts is a task that would scare the bravest of the scholars, no matter how confident – or reckless –…
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