James' Empty Blog

In the latest EOS (oh, and also here on the web ): The success of the scientific enterprise depends on intellectual rigor [sic], truthfulne...

The official 26.2 mile event is today, but we aren't stupid enough to run that far, so entered a rather low-key 10km race yesterday inst...

It's been a loong coold wiinter. At the end of last January I'd already been photographing ume for a couple of weeks . We are almo...

There is a strange tradition on the posh Motomachi street in Yokohama. Every Sunday morning, sports cars come and ... err ... park outside S...

The mode of the climate sensitivity estimate is 2.8C, with the corresponding 95% credible interval ranging from 1.8 to 4.9C. Note that this ...

I'm talking about academic journals, of course. People have been grumbling for ages about what a scam it is: academics not only provide ...

The Scientific Ethics Task Force is responsible for reviewing and guiding the Union’s standards, principles, and code of conduct on ethi...

I know I said it was boring . But not any more! My instinctive response is: Peter Gleick, you are a complete and utter twat of the highest o...

I wasn't going to bother commenting on the "Heartland" leaked documents . I mean, what is the actual story here: "Morally...

Starting at Daiyuzan We climbed a lot of steps sneaked passed the scary guardians of the mountain found fungi and snow and ...