Science and research


3% for science?

A protest was organised today that gathered scientists outside the Polish parliament to demand higher spending on Science and Education. It’s exceedingly rare to see scientists gather to protest anything, so that a few thousand people turned up in the middle of the day on a Wednesday is not that […]


Nobel citations

How many citations does it take to win a Nobel Prize? It’s a stupid question, I know, because Nobel prizes in the sciences, unlike the literature prize, are not given as a lifetime achievement award. Theoretically, it’s enough to have one really bright idea, and then not do much else. […]