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 […]
Nu var det återigen länge sedan jag uppdaterade sidan om mina egna artiklar, men nu är det dags igen. Den här gången med en artikel som tog nästan två år från idé till publicering. Mer om det i en kommande bloggpost. Det handlar även den här gången om en artikel […]
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. […]
This week the Polish Chemical Society (PT Chem) has its annual meeting. This year it’s in Warsaw at the technical university. Despite the fact that for several years now I officially count as chemist, I think this is the first general chemistry conference that I’ve been to. I mean, I’ve […]
Did a wordcloud of my articles from last year. It seems quite reasonable. Electrode is the biggest word with sample, surface, figure and other general “experimental” nouns also high on the list. We can see verbs like used, using, can, and so on that are also very generic. Would it […]
Det tog sin tid, men till slut kom artikeln ut i alla fall; en artikel i Sensors and Actuators B – Chemical med titeln “Fångst av fluorescerande virus med silvernanotrådar”. Det här är ett arbete som pågått i flera år – artikeln har avvisats, nya mätningar har gjorts, och nu […]
For two days now we have discussed answers to the question You drink a glass of ordinary tap water. How many water molecules in this glass were in the blood of Socrates when he died? First we used probability to determine that the value is at least tens of thousands […]
Yesterday we saw how a normal glass of water contains at least 20000 molecules of water that were in the blood of Socrates when he died. Here, we’ll see why that is completely wrong! You might think it has something to do with the way we estimated the circulation of […]
There is a classic question that comes up every now and then, usually meant to demonstrate how enormous Avogadro’s number is (or alternatively, how damn small a molecule is). There are many versions of it, but the one that I read in Göran Grimvall’s Brainteaser Physics many years ago, goes like […]
Så var det sent omsider dags för nästa uppdatering om mina forskingsartiklar. Den här gången handlar det om en artikel som publicerades av en kollega till mig, där jag bara hade en mycket liten del i arbetet. Det handlar om en artikel om en speciell användning av en teknik som […]
