Tag Archives: science

Save our Science (S.O.S.)

Posted on April 24, 2025 by Roger Gosden

Many young British and European scientists came as a rite of passage for advanced training in top American Universities and now they mostly come from East Asia and India. I went home after a year at Duke and came back … Continue reading →

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Cold Finger

Posted on January 15, 2014 by Roger Gosden

The last time we had a really cold snap like last week I dug up something unexpected in my backyard. It was not as exciting as a human skeleton, but nonetheless interesting.  I was digging frozen turf with a sharp … Continue reading →

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Shifting Baselines

Posted on January 5, 2014 by Roger Gosden

In 1608 Captain John Smith led a crew of fourteen to explore the Chesapeake Bay in a shallop brought over from England in the hold of the Susan Constant.  Leaning over the side of the small craft they could see … Continue reading →

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Star-struck

Posted on September 12, 2013 by Roger Gosden

Few people are star-struck these days—unless you mean a movie- or rock-star. How could they be when the nightly spectacle is veiled by light pollution? That expression might strike you as perverse, even as a non sequitur, for isn’t “light” … Continue reading →

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Dear Jean

Posted on August 10, 2013 by Roger Gosden

Dear Jean I couldn’t leave my students to say farewell. Our friends told me it was one of those miserable days before the daffodils bloom along the Cambridge College Backs: Scots would call it a “dreich day”. Pronounced correctly, everyone … Continue reading →

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