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.

Medijski sadržaj

  1. prije 15 sati

    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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  2. prije 15 sati

    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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  3. prije 19 sati
    Odgovor korisniku/ci
  4. prije 21 sat

    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.

  5. 28. sij
    Odgovor korisniku/ci

    It wasn't just you who felt that way - so did Dickens. (This is from my next book.)

  6. 28. sij
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    Did he? Or is that a mashup of Feynman and Bohr? Either way, I prefer what Mermin said of Bohr's view:

  7. 27. sij

    Feels like this is the kind of thing both Darwin and D'Arcy Thompson would have loved.

  8. 24. sij

    This piece by and is deeply informed and totally splendid, with a conclusion that pulls no punches. It's the kind of thorough and outspoken commentary we desperately need right now.

  9. 23. sij

    This is right on the mark. We fetishize sophisticated cures and neglect simple socioeconomic interventions.

  10. 22. sij

    There must be some reason why people aren't happy with the government saying there's no need for legislation on reuniting child refugees because we'll do it anyway, trust us. I'm just trying to imagine what that reason could possibly be.

  11. 20. sij
    Odgovor korisnicima

    Cats are totally banned from my quantum talks. Only dogs and rabbits allowed.

  12. 8. sij

    Jem Finer is up to interesting stuff again. This analog ball-bearing computer for computing cellular automata is rather wonderful, and (like his music installation Longplayer) mesmerizing.

  13. 6. sij

    A lovely journey through bubbleology by Detlef Lohse

  14. 4. sij

    I fear I'm going back over old ground but I just saw this question in a maths exam paper and couldn't resist. Is the answer "something a mathematician would never write"?

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  15. 3. sij

    Meitner was not just cheated of a Nobel; she also towered over Hahn and her other German colleagues morally. This is from "Serving the Reich", p.231.

  16. 31. pro 2019.

    Among other things, it explained how and why the little chunk of my arm on the left was turned into the brain-like neuronal structure on the right.

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  17. 21. pro 2019.

    A few more. How to choose?

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  18. 21. pro 2019.

    Elspeth Diederix has offered me a print of one of her photos after I wrote the catalogue copy for her exhibition When Red Disappears. But honestly the choice is impossible - these underwater images are so endlessly stunning.

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  19. 19. pro 2019.

    Never mind cats & dogs & stuff, I think we have a categorization of the three basic types of human here.

  20. 17. pro 2019.

    Usually, finishing a book means it's time to get on with writing the next. But this one has been such a challenge in various ways that I decided to push the boat out today first.

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