Category Archives: Politics

Learning and terror, ten years on

Posted on 11/09/2011 by Jon Butterworth

At the Guardian.

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The Higgs will be open access

Posted on 01/09/2011 by Jon Butterworth

George Monbiot is right, but how did particle physics escape? At the Guardian. I read George Monbiot’s piece on the high social, intellectual and financial cost of the academic publishing business with a familiar sense of outrage, shared in most of the follow … Continue reading →

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Real physicists do it in latex

Posted on 06/07/2011 by Jon Butterworth

At the Guardian. See also Chapter 7.2 of Smashing Physics.

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From Higgs Hunters to Job Seekers

Posted on 16/03/2011 by Jon Butterworth

The House of Commons Science and Technology Committee are currently looking into Astronomy and Particle Physics in the UK. At The Guardian.

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