Claudia de Rham, “The Pull of the Stars” (Open Agenda, 2021)
New Books in the History of Science
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Physicists, Are They Really Cool?
The culture within theoretical physics tends to be very aggressive. There is a relationship between attitudes that one encounters in a standard physic seminar and the fact that a statistically high proportion of physicists who are involved are men. I think we should just try to give a better picture of the physicist really is doing cool things, sure. But i mean, there are two issues. It seems to me, there's the societal appreciation and awareness of physics,. And then there's the gender issue.
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