Putin's former thesis advisor is convinced that oil never runs out, and Russia is now drilling 8 kilometres into the ground to prove him...

In which I air my frustration about how much Europe has fallen behind.

We’re more than 100 days into the new Trump administration, and the president has made a lot of changes to federal science funding in the U....

All across the globe, new nuclear power plants are being built and some shuttered plants are even being revived as countries look for more w...

The political situation at US-American campuses has been developing quickly, with some claiming that Trump’s actions are signs of facism, di...

In January, Chinese AI firm DeepSeek released its DeepSeek-R1 model, which performed as well as the best American AI models with significant...

Since the Jan 6 attack on the US Capitol in 2021, some Americans have increasingly insisted that their country is not a democracy, but a re...

On my recent trip to the UK, I spoke with Tim Palmer about the uncertainty in climate predictions.

Most economists I know started out as physicists. Being a physicist myself of course means that the sample is biased, but still it serves ...

The Earth is warming. Human carbon-dioxide emissions are one of the major culprits. We have known this for a long time. But in the past tw...

[In case you’d rather read than listen, a full transcript follows below.] Today, I want to talk about Facebook. Yes, Facebook, the soc...

Two weeks ago, Barak Obama visited Stockholm and spent half an hour or so on the KTH campus . Since Nordita is officially part of KTH, safet...

I was a little bit depressed about the recent US midterm election. Not so much because of the outcome. I wasn't too convinced of Obama w...

I once joked that when my blood pressure is too low I go and buy the Time Magazine. It works better than medication and with less side-effec...

The European Commission just published "She Figures 2009" ( download PDF here ), a summary of data covering aspects of gender ineq...

It occurred to me I haven't bothered you with my random thoughts for a while, so here's a topic that keeps coming back to me: The co...

It occurred to me I haven't bothered you with my random thoughts for a while. Not that I had lack thereof, they just possibly were a lit...

In case anybody recalls, there was a presidential election going on last year. One couldn't open a newspaper, switch on the radio, go fo...

I just came across these interesting survey results on “ The State of American Political Ideology, 2009 ,” which documents the findings of a...

“We will restore science to its rightful place.” ~Barack Obama, Inauguration Speech I have a complaint. It is impossible these days to li...