Science fiction as a lens on scientific progress

Science fiction uses the future as an arena to explore and extrapolate from the problems of the present, with technological change and sociocultural change alternating in the role of dependent and …
The config file for scientific progress

Science is a people and a place at a time
Academia has lost some of its lustre lately, and people are speculating about What Comes After the Academy.
I come not to bury the academy, but to …
A grapefruit is an alchemy kit

“A grapefruit is just a lemon that saw an opportunity and took advantage of it” – Oscar Wilde
Fingerspitzengefühl
Lab hands
As you spend time working at a laboratory bench, you develop a second sense — we called it lab hands— for the way your body interfaces with and manipulates your …