The answer to this question, of course depends on what one means by 'good'. I will choose a low bar for this qualification - let 'good'...

I'm an academic, and papers are the currency of my trade. A significant part of my professional effort goes into trying to put out...

This post is about the connection of physicists - and physics - to music. While writing, I felt it divided naturally into two sections....

Since ancient times toys have exploited, knowingly or not, the principles of physics. They are simultaneously pure fun as well as a great...

Whether philosophy has much to say to science is a well-debated topic. I have heard it mentioned that science is what we know and...

What follows is a probably a futile protest against pictures and how we are often reminded that they are worth a thousand words. Since I...

There is often no recipe - chatGPT included - for cracking open an unsolved problem other than creative thinking. Where does human...

Let's start this blog with a story: one of my favorite writers of fiction is Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and one of my favorite short stories...