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If you can’t be bothered to ask me questions, why should I answer them?
Category: Opinion
When all you have is a hammer, get more tools
When all you have is a hammer, everything sure does start to look like a nail. This is not a good thing. I’ve spent a lot of my life variously1) Falling in love with physics and physics fundamentalism (the idea that physics is the “building block” of our reality)2) Training to “think like a physicist”3) […]
Goals for Living People
It’s not enough to have goals for living people. It’s time to think about what those goals are.
Adventures in getting old
This afternoon, my husband and I were talking about how things just seemed better back in 2008 to 2014, or at least less bad. Things made more sense. It seemed like we had positive visions for the future, or something. …and then I realised that we sounded like the 90s kids that I used to […]
Marketing prediction markets
As a certified prediction market enjoyer, I’ve been thinking about why people might not like prediction markets, and how we might change that. Here are my (very rough) thoughts.
Automating science
Life after the PhD and the future of science I haven’t written here in a while. Finishing my PhD took a lot out of me, and since then I’ve been finding my feet and working on a new project – prediction markets for science. (I have a little website at sciencebetting.com, and you should check […]
Information-sifting heuristics
Happy rather belated New Year! I have now finished my PhD, I am a Dr, and I am slowly emerging back into the real world. Which – right now – is rather a messy place. I’ve increasingly been wondering about heuristics for deciding which sources are and aren’t reliable. This is because I think truth […]
The invisible technician today
This is free writing while I work out what I want to put in my PhD chapter. Bits of it are probably wrong to varying degrees, but being wrong is most of doing research. Our reward at the end of a research project is to be slightly less wrong. One of the things that made […]
On material culture and legibility
As I write about material culture – the study of the things that people make and what it can tell us about our cultures – in my thesis, I’m conscious that I’m trying to balance two different aspects of material culture at once. One is material culture as a thing that academics write about – […]
Scientific Objects and Emotion
Scientific objects are different enough from the things you might find in your house and home that academics treat them differently. But is that the right approach?
Osnat Katz Moon 