Philip Ball

@philipcball

Author, writer and broadcaster, mostly about science. Books include The Music Instinct, Curiosity, Critical Mass. Obsessed by (too) many things.

London, UK
Vrijeme pridruživanja: siječanj 2014.

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  1. prije 56 minuta

    Excellent plea for science culture to be kinder, from

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  2. prije 5 sati
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  3. 4. velj

    Perhaps. My view is that, had they not done so, we'd no longer be able to regard them as journalists at all.

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  5. 4. velj

    1. What the feck did you expect, UK folks? Of course he will continue to adopt Trumpian tactics. 2. It's crunch time, journalists. For once, 👏 that even the right-wing press opposed this. The moment you don't, we're lost.

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    "En mi opinión, escribir sobre ciencia no es solo escribir sobre 'la ciencia'. Las ideas y los avances científicos siempre han tenido un profundo impacto en la cultura y en la filosofía, y a veces también en la religión."

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    "Our perception of what science means is shaped by narratives about it. There are narratives that society imposes on new discoveries and advances, which are often cut from older cloth." - at .

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  8. 2. velj

    His conclusion, then, seems very sound to me: "Today, the uniquely difficult challenge of biology is [not quanitification but] representation. To reason about something you first have to represent it somehow."

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  9. 2. velj

    Now here, from Walter's paper, is a representation of most of the protein-protein interactions so far identified that involve axin. In what sense then does the preceding image offer an actual molecular-scale picture? What is "happening" in real time? (3/3 + 1 to come)

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  10. 2. velj

    See, here's a conventional view of the Wnt/beta-catenin signaling pathway. Note that axin is one of the proteins involved. (2/3)

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  11. 2. velj

    This very interesting paper (text of a lecture) by Walter Fontana that I'm reading is giving me a lovely perspective on what I was driving at in this piece (1/3)

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  12. 2. velj

    "A molecule is a structure that electrons have shaped to be comfortable" - Walter Fontana. I have to think about this, but it feels like a nice perspective.

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  13. 2. velj

    I think I get a sense of what those old Romantics meant by the Sublime when I see this.

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  15. 2. velj

    This is a good question from Dawkins. And I hope scientists working on genetics are asking it of their own community: that's the place to start looking. Today more than ever.

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  16. 2. velj

    Excellent summary from Athene of why cosmetic tweaks and promises of funding are not enough to avert the damage Brexit seems sure to do (and is already doing) to UK science.

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  17. 2. velj

    Maybe the first Hay Festival I've been to where I am not either sheltering from the rain or wondering when it will start again. I love Wales, but let's face it, it is not Cartagena.

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    en el , el científico y autor conversa con sobre cómo se crea, efectivamente, la vida y cómo la ciencia es hoy capaz de reproducirla en un laboratorio 🔬🧬

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  19. 2. velj

    Thanks to for doing such a great job of moderating/interviewing. And the audience for great questions.

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  20. 2. velj

    Always good to see reminders that those who bang on about "Enlightenment values" don't actually mean "what leading figures of the Enlightenment actually said". And yes, I am thinking of this

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