by Len Fisher | 14 Apr 2016 | News, Stray Thoughts
Books To Read Before University Thursday, April 14th, 2016 The Times Education Supplement and the Times Higher Education Supplement have combined to produce a feature article on books that students should read before going to university... 
by Len Fisher | 23 Feb 2015 | Mini Stories from Science
The Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman ploughed his own furrow. In his second volume of autobiography What Do You Care What Other People Think? he revealed that he sometimes thought, not just in terms of equations or pictures or models, but in poetry,... 
by Len Fisher | 6 Feb 2015 | Mini Stories from Science
I thought that this would be an easy post to write. Just scour through some scientists’ autobiographies (I have around a hundred on my shelves), pick out some quotes, and the post would write itself. I couldn’t have been more wrong. Because scientists love talking...