Well, for once this is a post in Italian for Italians. Would make little sense to convert it in English. See the Italian post. If you’re not Italian, I leave you with a bit of comic relief : a wonderful linguistic sketch by Fry and Laurie, just to link things with the previous post about …
Author Archives: devicerandom
We will again open this container of wisdom that has been left in our care
The proverbial sadness of the Tropics has been depicted in detail by much better people than me: yet I must echo the lament. In fact, I’ve got a bizarre fondness, recently, for the Tlingit, a population of natives of southern Alaska. They’re not Eskimo and they’re not classical American Indians either: something in between and …
I got a job. As a miner.
(Part 4 of the saga of my escape from academia, see the original post that started everything, then also this and this.) So in the end, an unexpected turn of luck. I am officially employed again. Out of academia. I work, in fact, in a mine. Well, ok, not this kind of mine. Real miners …
The extinction of Bin Laden and cultures of “evil”
That Bin Laden has been killed instead of being brought to a jury is not surprising -it was well known that there wouldn’t have been any other option then annihilation in dealing with him. Still, inspired by the reflection in my sister’s blog post, I also kind of mourn Bin Laden’s death. It’s not a …
Ex academic cruising the job searching sea -no land in sight, morale still high
Two months away from research, and it looks like it’s been geological ages. Not that many things have happened (for a start: I still don’t have a job, as you may imagine) but a huge learning experience it is. And it’s fun, even if in a bit of frightening way. In the meantime the Infamous …
and your eyes steal my light so you can shine in mine
You steal my time You steal my energies You don’t listen to the lament You don’t listen to the call You crack my boldness You make my wait vain The evenings I wait for you, the afternoons waiting for the evening You steal my mornings Because I wake up alone, and it’s not nice You …
Why did they win? II. Learning to fly
A few months ago I was asking myself: why, among all terrestrial Arthropoda, insects came out as the obvious exceptional winners? That is, why did only Insecta develop killer features like flight, metamorphosis and eusociality that allowed them to be the most successful group of pluricellular life? Well, it seems we have a tentative answer …
Goodbye academia: The aftermath.
Given the overwhelming response to my previous post (thanks redditors!) I think I owe people a follow-up. I pinned my blog post on reddit just as a random experiment, only because I felt “well, I’d like some opinions on this”. I expected a few heads up and some “lol you’re a loser” comment. It was …
Goodbye academia, I get a life.
One of my first memories is myself, 5 years old, going to my mother and declare to her, as serious as only children can be: “I will be a scientist.” Yesterday night I was in my office in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Cambridge packing my stuff, resolved to not go back …