First of all, I’d like to announce my Italian-speaking readers that I have a brand new popular science blog, focused on made-in-Italy scientific researchs. Yes guys, we Italians do more than simple pizzas! Then, here I’d like to report to my non-US readers what some excerpts from a Reddit thread on the work condition in …
Category Archives: politics
Why the death of Steve Jobs is good news
Among the comments on the Economist web site about the recent death of Steve Jobs, the vast majority praising the man like he was a saint and a spiritual guru, one shined for its insight: “A great quote from Slashdot: “From the fall of AOL to the rise of iComputing, we had a 12 year …
The extinction of Bin Laden and cultures of “evil”
That Bin Laden has been killed instead of being brought to a jury is not surprising -it was well known that there wouldn’t have been any other option then annihilation in dealing with him. Still, inspired by the reflection in my sister’s blog post, I also kind of mourn Bin Laden’s death. It’s not a …
Serious business, at last
It had to happen, and, if anything, what is surprising is that it took so much time. The whole point of the cables Wikileaks affair is not in the novel insights on USA politics (quite few so far), or on who controls Assange (if anyone -Putin’s declarations sound ominous however) or who really is for …
What has changed in science and what must change – I. Rethink the scientific career.
I have been pointed today by my friend and brilliant scientist Giorgio Gilestro to an interesting blog post of his on how science should change. My reaction was “This is really really interesting and raises a lot of fundamental issues; yet I disagree almost entirely.” However 1)it’s really good food for thought and 2)you can’t …
A call to whistleblowers in geophysics: make Enzo Boschi irrelevant
This blog/site is still very much a thing in progress ; yet I can’t stay silent on what I’ve just read on La Repubblica. For non-Italian speakers: Apparently, prof. Enzo Boschi, head of the Italian Geophysics and Vulcanology Institute, is talking about “not making our data available via Web anymore, because they are used to …