by Len Fisher | 14 Sep 2015 | Mini Stories from Science, News
Some late night reflections on what it feels like to be a scientist, broadcast on ABC Radio National in Australia on September 13th, and now available as a podcast at... 
by Len Fisher | 13 Feb 2015 | Mini Stories from Science
Are you thinking of becoming a scientist? Do you want to uncover the mysteries of nature, perform experiments or carry out calculations to learn how the world works? Forget it! … If you go to graduate school in science it is in the expectation of spending your working... 
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...