Monthly Archives: April 2007

A day in the (new) life

My life has obviously changed a bit since my previous ‘day in the life’, and my first two months in South Africa have rather flown by without me really getting the chance to talk about how I’m finding it. What … Continue reading

Categories: bloggery

Philosophia Naturalis #9

Charles Daney over at Science and Reason is so up-to-date with his summary the latest and greatest physical sciences blogging, he’s even summed up the blogospheric reaction to the discovery of Gliese 581b and c. Go check it out.

Categories: links

Blogging and ‘Fair Use’

Update: The awesome power of the blogosphere has got Shelley an apology (see also this comment for some welcome clarification on her usage rights). Whilst this is great news, I think that the murky issues of where blogs stand with … Continue reading

Categories: academic life, bloggery, public science

New planets around Gliese 581

Unsurprisingly, there’s lots of fuss about the new planet discovered around the red dwarf Gliese 581 (read the European Southern Observatory press release here). Planets, I should say, because they’ve actually confirmed two more in a system where they’d detected … Continue reading

Categories: planets

When reviewers go bad

Is there a way to neuter anonymous hatchet-job reviews?
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Categories: academic life, publication