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 …

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, …