I’ve experienced the other side of research recently. A number of weeks ago I spent an afternoon working with Cambridge students in their department. I wasn’t doing the research, I …
In the same vein as the interviews I normally do on this site, The Scientist interviewed a scientist/musician. Johan Olsen works as crystallographer at the University of Copenhagen, and is …
Sometimes I put things off for too long. In December 2008, right after I defended my thesis, my friend Liesbeth e-mailed me to ask if I wanted to write about …
David Bradley is a freelance science writer who also sings in a choir and plays guitar. I interviewed him by e-mail about his science/music pursuits: What’s your day job and …
There’s a lull between interviews (which is entirely my fault) but as an intermezzo, here are a few pieces I came across this week about the scientific analysis of music, …
I went to BarCamb this weekend. It’s BarCamp, in Cambridge, hence the name. Attilla Csordas (who also lives in Cambridge now, in case you’re trying to keep up with the …