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Date: February 21st, 2008

Basic Research

21 February, 2008 (16:04) | Physics, Politics | 1 comment

An essay on basic research and budgets and making a case for the necessity of funding.
In truth, fundamental research is a necessity, not a luxury. Most of the technological developments made in the past 100 years have been fuelled by fundamental research into science.
It’s mostly about “Big Physics” and there’s a lot that [...]

PZ in the Crosshairs

21 February, 2008 (09:23) | Cartoon, Physics, Silly | 1 comment

Over at Pharyngula, PZ Myers is complaining that all the cartoonists are making fun of him
It’s true.
Before I even knew he existed, I drew a cartoon depicting cephalopod torture. It was a promotion for a talk on superconducting quantum interference devices, or SQUIDs. (I got criticism that it’s more an octopus-looking thing in [...]

 

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