by Len Fisher | 9 May 2015 | Stray Thoughts
Scientists are often seen as having a sardonic attitude towards ordinary mortals. Seeking an origin for the word “sardonic”, I came across this from Vladimir Propp’s “Theory and History of Folklore”... 
by Len Fisher | 4 May 2015 | Mini Stories from Science
When I started this series of Mini Stories, I did so out of pique. Not one, but two agents had told me that people would not be interested in a book about how scientists think. I thought that they would be – or, at least, that they ought to be, and would be if someone...