When I woke up just after dawn on September 28, 1928, I certainly didn’t plan to revolutionize all medicine by discovering the world’s first antibiotic
Alexander Fleming
Why do I get public funding to try something that has no current practical value and might not even work?
I don’t know.
Yet.
I’m at the point in my PhD where there are various different workshops and symposia to be applied for. Certain large companies want to court final year PhD students at just about the time students are looking for jobs. Even if the companies are laying off employees by the hundreds.
I’ve been caught up in these […]
Science needs to be transparent. Clear and systematic so that it can be understood by anyone willing to learn. This is a fundamental tenet of the scientific method. It avoids the pseudoscience of mysticism. It’s the difference between chemistry and alchemy.
But science can be very complex, especially when dealing with abstract things like atoms, molecules […]
I’m (slowly) beginning to make my way through The Sceptical Chymist by Robert Boyle.
This book essentially dragged chemistry out of alchemy and turned it into a science. The origin of modern chemistry. I feel like I should give it a read.