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 CommentsToday this remarkable post by Google researchers is a sensation around, and for good reasons. It explains itself pretty well, but quickly speaking, here’s the…
Leave a 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 CommentsIt’s the end of XIX century. A man, far away from home, looks in his microscope. He’s looking at a drop of salty water, taken…
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2 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 CommentsI have been pointed today by my friend and brilliant scientist Giorgio Gilestro to an interesting blog post of his on how science should change.…
4 CommentsThis 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…
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