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One of the original reasons for starting this entire interview series was that I noticed that there were often so many scientists in orchestras. A friend of mine was in …
Flipping through the program of the meeting of the Society for Developmental Biology, I saw the same name twice: Eric Olson, of UT Southwestern, was not only giving a talk …
Stuart Clark is a science writer by day and guitarist by night. I saw him play at Geek Pop, as “Dr Stu” of “Dr Stu and the Neutron Stars”, and …
Last week, James Dacey let me know about an interview he did for PhysicsWorld: In the first video, particle physicist Brian Foster and violinist Jack Liebeck talk about Einstein’s musical …
Kat Arney has a blog called “You Do Too Much“, and that sums it up pretty well. In the first part of this interview she lists all the things she …
A friend of mine once formulated (in a late night MSN session) the theory that there are two types of ideas: original ideas and good ideas. Original ideas are never …
