I wrote a guest post on Occam’s Typewriter’s Irregulars blog, about crowdfunding research. Here’s a tiny fragment. Research can’t guarantee any outcomes. You can’t promise funders that you’re going to …
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I’ve been reading about William Herschel lately. While working as a musician, he spent his spare time making – and using – telescopes. It was with a telescope of his …
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Philip Howie is a percussionist in several Cambridge orchestras, but during the day he’s a materials scientist who just finished his PhD. This is a fragment of a conversation we …
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Science CommunicationWriting, images, and storytelling
The Best Science Writing Online 2012 – with a chapter written by me
A book with my name on the cover was published yesterday! The official title is “The Best Science Writing Online 2012”. Technically, it should be called “Some of the Subjectively …
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Creative & designScience EverywhereScience life and careers
Lab coat art from my undergrad chemistry days
I studied chemistry for my undergraduate degree, and for our first- and second year labs we had to all have our own lab coat. They were of the kind of …
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The main cause of my writer’s block and general low self-esteem when it comes to writing about people-who-are-both-scientists-and-musicians is that I don’t have as many facts as my inner scientist …