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25/4/2025 18:02 My Interview With Dr. Lee Phillips Regarding His Science Career, Science Writing, and Telling Science Stories: My chat at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, DC, with Dr. Anwar Dunbar (previously released in six parts, now collected together).
23/4/2025 13:21 When to use “cat -n” instead of “wc -l”: This is a great article because it’s short, clear, and immediately useful. Plus, although I’ve been working in the Linux terminal for decades, I learned about two handy commands that I wasn’t aware of.
22/4/2025 10:41 Naval Academy Censors Ryan Holiday’s Lecture on Censorship
20/4/2025 14:39 Emmy Noether: Emmy Noether’s life and the importance of her eponymous theorem in the history of physics, based on my book Einstein’s Tutor. (In Dutch.)
15/4/2025 10:36 In Its Purest Form: About Lolita on its 70th anniversary.
9/4/2025 19:07 Hidden Genius: A review of Einstein’s Tutor in American Scientist: “Complex ideas from mathematics and science are presented using intuitive and conceptual examples, and he makes few assumptions about his reader’s prior mathematical knowledge. Some of the most elegant science communication in the book unfolds as Phillips walks us through what symmetry means in Noether’s theorem.”
21/3/2025 13:34 Register to watch my interview at the Edison Electric Institute: On Thursday, March 27th, at 11:00 am EDT (3:00 pm UTC) I’ll be in DC having a chat about my book Einstein’s Tutor. It will be webcast, but to see it you’ll have to follow the link and register.
11/3/2025 8:49 Solar Energy, Criticized by Trump, Claims Big U.S. Gain in 2024: The Trump administration continues to falsely claim that solar power can’t do what it is doing.
05/03/2025 08:03 Japanese Translation of Einstein’s Tutor: Today my publisher signed a contract with Misuzu Shobo of Tokyo to distribute a Japanese edition of my book about Emmy Noether and her eponymous theorem. Other translations on the way are Simplified Chinese, Polish, and Russian.
05/03/2025 08:03 Emmy Noether: the genius who taught Einstein: Marcus Chown’s review of my book Einstein’s Tutor in Prospect.
28/2/2025 13:42 Among world’s top researchers 10% publish at unrealistic levels, analysis finds: I know from my 22 years working in a government research lab how pervasive (and accepted) this kind of plagiarism is among the managerial classes. I’m glad to see that some are taking a systematic look at the problem.
28/2/2025 13:27 Sweetener aspartame aggravates atherosclerosis through insulin-triggered inflammation: I suppose I’m lucky in a sense in that I perceive aspartame (and other artificial sweeteners) as nastily bitter rather than sweet. This article supplies a good reason for everyone to avoid these chemicals.
24/2/2025 21:52 Wrapping up my interview at the National Portrait Gallery with Dr. Anwar Dunbar with Part Six.: We chat about learning foreign languages and our past association with a planetarium in Virginia.
24/2/2025 21:13 A short-term, high-caloric diet has prolonged effects on brain insulin action in men: This could be a very important result, but it needs replication: it’s a small study, relies on self-reporting of food consumed, and uses p-values (why do Nature journals still permit this?).
24/2/2025 18:15 Google Co-Scientist AI cracks superbug problem in two days! — because it had been fed the team’s previous paper with the answer in it: Apparently Google has some “AI” tool called “Co-Scientist”. They have been lying about how it performs. Like all “AI” programs, it’s just an elaborate copy-paste machine.
23/2/2025 9:11 The Case Against UNRWA: “UNRWA, despite its claims to be a humanitarian agency, has forged an unholy alliance with Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, and other terrorist organizations.”
19/2/2025 11:29 1 + 2 + 3 + … = −1/12: I’m really tired of seeing the nonsense claim that appears in the title of this article, which is a clear and concise explanation for why it is nonsense.
19/2/2025 11:18 DOGE as a National Cyberattack: Bruce Schneier’s analysis seems sound.
17/02/2025 22:19 Web Applications with Julia: My article appeared in the February edition of “ADMIN magazine”. You can buy the issue or single articles at the link, or pick up the magazine at many bookstores.
