… but I’d love to talk science with you for hours, on the shores of Sakhalin or in the bars of Beirut, or in the nearest available seminar room. This is a short armchair-philosophical elegy to slow science. [The background is Olga Rozanova’s 1914 “Cityscape” photoshopped for the worse.] In all forms of communication, discovery, […]
Category: Life of a scientist
Book & music parings. Vol. 1.
The premise is simple: just six fantastic science books and their spirit animals in the zoo of music. “1” because it feels like I forgot some obvious ones. Claude Lévi-Strauss – The Raw and the Cooked (1964)Vague Imaginaires – L’île D’or (2020) Mysterious, eclectic, French, neo-exotica vs. Scientific, eclectic, French structural anthropology. Lévi-Strauss is one of […]
Science is fun, isn’t it?
Hands up if you also read academic articles from other fields than your own just for fun. I know I’m not alone in doing that, but I also know many think academic papers are strictly business. During job interviews, an esteemed colleague of mine always asks the candidates to describe a scientific article from a […]
Six tips for interdisciplinary lovers
I think I know a lot about interdisciplinary collaborations, so I’ve been planning to write down some notes for a long time. Tongue in cheek, but also serious. Take time to get to know each other Yes, it will take time. It might feel like you understand each other from the moment you met; that […]
Petter Holme 