by Len Fisher | 16 Feb 2016 | Mini Stories from Science
In my latest broadcast for Australian ABC Radio’s “Ockham’s Razor” programme, I reveal how (and why) Galileo calculated the dimensions of the roof of Dante’s Hell, and how this led to his discovery of the laws of mechanics that engineers... 
by Len Fisher | 16 Jul 2015 | News, Think Like a Scientist: Media and Writing
Dutch Universities have announced a plan to boycott the Dutch publisher Elsevier. The firm now publishes a wide range of scientific books and journals, in which some of my own articles have even appeared. But how many people know of the role that they played in... 
by Len Fisher | 25 Jan 2015 | Mini Stories from Science
Readers of these stories will have noticed something of a hiatus in the last few days. The reason (or sequence of reasons) is simple: I am in Australia; I live in a rural community; the broadband signal comes down the telephone line; the telephone lines are made of...