Of course, we know how this sort of thing happens – it happens because “everyone knows” who the problems are, but nothing happens to stop them.
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Big Astro
As an astrophysicist, I hope that the TMT will be built – it is an astonishing instrument, big enough to catch the the light from the first generation of stars to be born after the Big Bang, and …
Friends Don’t Let Friends Do H
So my resolution for 2015 is this: I am going to go h-free, wherever possible. I won’t use it in recommendations I write, I won’t cite my own h-index in my annual performance appraisals, and I will…
Measurer, Measure Yourself.
The great Russian physicist, Lev Landau used to rank physicists on a…