Physics, Photos and Fugacity

A Dunedin retrospective. Arriving on the bus into cloudy Dunedin in 2005 - a lot like future arrivals into Dunedin; no matter how nice t...

There is a problem with physics. I only became consciously aware of it last week when I was browsing through the arXiv in my research area...

Everyone within academia knows what the h -index is. For those who don't, it's a metric for how productive you are as an academic....

Is equality the same thing as consistency? In my country of residence, the powers that be are deciding if same sex marriage should be leg...

How would you live your life if you had 10 years to live? What about 200? What about a thousand? The year is 2312, and humans have sp...

It's fair to say that most of my friends are not physicists or even scientists. When you do a PhD in something, usually what you are wo...

It still hasn't sunk in. More than two weeks ago, I finished writing my PhD thesis, and a bit more than a week after that (printing, so...

If you have yet to see Prometheus and don't want any spoilers, then maybe read this another time. There were aspects of the movie th...

Unlike most of the rest of the country, we had a rather clear day today and were able to observe the transit of Venus. Furthermore, the tra...

I've been writing up my PhD thesis. That's right, I'm in that boat now. With any luck, I'll have it done at the end of this...