Trainwrecks I Have Seen…
Perhaps Weinstein has been breathing his own fumes for too long, and has managed to persuade du Sautoy that the usual standards of reproducibility, peer-review and the scrutiny of one’s colleagues are just for the little people. And here Weinstein really is challenging Einstein: the Swiss-German patent clerk played by the rules.
Time Capsule
A year ago, my family and I moved home to New Zealand after 15 years in the United States. We’d left New Zealand with suitcases, but returned with a 40-foot shipping container.A year later we are just getting to the bottom of the last of the boxes, where I discovered a 2001 copy of Pulp — a glossy New Zealand “fashion and lifestyle” magazine — with me in it.