I am finally finishing a book that I found by chance, last year, in a beautiful second-hand English bookshop in Amsterdam. Death of a Hornet,…
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“Oh, yes. I’m very proud of not having a Ph.D. I think the Ph.D. system is an abomination. It was invented as a system for…
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3 CommentsI am seriously obsessed with the New Horizons encounter with Pluto and Charon – the first thing I do every morning nowadays is checking if…
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1 CommentSince five hundred million years, something is burrowing on the ocean floor. We see its unique traces: two-dimensional grids of burrows, tracing an hexagonal pattern.…
3 CommentsTonight I was checking my Twitter feed when I found this blog post on Nature Soapbox Science blog. Where it says that, at a Royal…
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15 CommentsWhen the brouhaha for the death of Steve Jobs just settled, here in Italy we are just ending another famous-guy-dies frenzy in the media: this…
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3 Comments(Part 4 of the saga of my escape from academia, see the original post that started everything, then also this and this.) So in the…
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2 CommentsGiven the overwhelming response to my previous post (thanks redditors!) I think I owe people a follow-up. I pinned my blog post on reddit just…
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37 CommentsOne of my first memories is myself, 5 years old, going to my mother and declare to her, as serious as only children can be:…
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