Popular Science Science angst: On hunter-gatherers and science 11 Sep 201711 Sep 2019 (with a nod to Carl Sagan) Why are people so afraid of science? Or are they? As a scientist, or, in fact, as a curious human being, I cannot but…
Popular Science Magnetars: On the boredom induced by magnetic fields 4 Apr 201610 Sep 2019 Everybody remembers them from school, surely, the little pieces of iron on a surface that align in weird shapes when you put a magnet on them. We all remember that…
Popular Science Feynman’s Flower 22 Feb 201610 Sep 2019 The Sober Scientist. What an excrutiatingly weird concept to me. I am one myself, a scientist, I mean; and I know how much I have to force myself to not…
Popular Science A visit to Galileo’s cellar 14 Dec 201510 Sep 2019 In some sense, this was the shortest visit to a museum ever. I had half-an-hour for this bounty of different instruments from all epochs of science since the 16th century,…
Popular Science Warping drives 7 Dec 201510 Sep 2019 In science you should never say no. To anything. Period. Until it is proven wrong. Then you shout No! to the world. Technology development, now, may be a rather different…
Popular Science Skipping stones like a boss 16 Nov 201510 Sep 2019 One of my favourite games as a youngster was to skip stones on water. I was really bad at it - and still I became a physicist, a rocket scientist…
Popular Science Brilliant minds 2 Nov 201510 Sep 2019 I asked a stupid question on Google+. I rather often do, so that is not unusual. At about the same time of that post, I called mixing up the terms…
Popular Science Why would a lake reflect a mountain? 26 Oct 201510 Sep 2019 There are many texts out there which discuss the reflection of light from surfaces. A good example would be found here. Now, as well as these articles are written, I…
Popular Science Non-Newtonian curiosity 19 Oct 201510 Sep 2019 One of life’s mysteries: How can you run on a pool of Non-Newtonian fluid without asking how that is even possible? Truth be told, I suspect that the question comes…