Few myths have been busted as often and as cheerfully as that of the lone genius. �Future discoveries are more likely to be made by scientists sharing ideas than a lone genius,� declares Athene Donald in the Guardian, and Joshua Wolf Shenk opines in the NYT that �the lone genius is a myth that has outlived its usefulness.� Thinking on your own is so yesterday; today is collaboration. �Fortunately
Wednesday, 8 July 2015
The loneliness of my notepad
- I have made a slide-show of my Monday talk a the Munin conference and managed to squeeze
- Damned if I know! But I got to ask some questions to Lee Smolin which he kindly replied t
- Stephen Hawking�s �Brief History of Time� was one of the first popular science books I re
- If you fall into a black hole, you�ll die. That much is pretty sure. But what happens bef
- This is the story of a friend of a friend, a man by name Francis who took his life at age
- If people know anything about physics, it�s the guy in a wheelchair who speaks with a com
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