Enormous red flag. It’s right up there with treating waitstaff as beneath you. It’s the behaviour of someone who thinks others are there to be taken advantage of. It will not stop at taking advantage of a generous norm in a business that can probably afford it.

My mind went to the Tennis Court Meeting in Uppsala on 17 February 1939, where a majority of the attending students protested against Sweden receiving 10 Jewish refugees – all physicians – from Nazi Germany, as they “would pose a threat to the students’ employment prospects”.

Exakt! Packat och klart, rakt ut till bilen. Absolut bäst.

Självskanning där man ska stå i en egen liten ”kassa” och skanna varor är rätt värdelösa för allt utom typ Pressbyrån på flygplats. Sådan där man har en egen liten manick med sig och skannar varje vara allteftersom och sedan bara betalar och går är däremot toppen.

A frighteningly large proportion of adults have absolutely terrible theory of mind.

Hence why we insist on handwritten notes for the allowed page of notes for the exam. Even if they did get AI to produce a summary, they still need to at least write it out themselves. And of course, the exam doesn’t just ask you to regurgitate the notes anyway.

Frusen Glädjé indeed looks nonsensical because of the spurious accent on the é. Removing that, however, Frusen Glädje means Frozen Joy or Frozen Happiness in Swedish. Probably not entirely unintentional for an ice-cream brand.

Correct. The most modern – but not futuristic – thing about this is the kitchen as one wall of the living room. A frequent feature in new builds and one of the worst ideas architecture/home design. I’d take a house with a kitchen over the round corners and circular sofa any day.

Småfånig rubrik, men forskningen är ju intressant och inslaget bara en minut långt. Värt att lyssna på.

… on a very windy day.

I’m not nearly knowledgeable enough about literature to answer those questions, but looking at my own field of science, it’s easy to point to awards that “should” have been given, much harder to say which (at a similar time) shouldn’t.

Sure, but I think that’s to some extent inherent to any such prize. One per year across all forms of literature, there are going to be “omissions”. The question is, are choices regularly questionable? Do lesser names remarkably often get favoured over major ones?

We all make them, yes. This one needed to get caught before it was sent out. Not having a check that would catch it is unacceptable. It’s obviousness doesn’t matter. Still leaves the kid with no reasonable timeframe to react to a real threat.

That error alone is enough to make it extremely unprofessional. The money is owed, right enough, but that doesn’t mean the first communication on the matter should be liable to send the employee into a panic, even by mistake. Some mistakes are unprofessional. This is one.

Verkligen! Jag tittade faktiskt åt det hållet när jag sökte doktorandtjänster, men bestämde mig för att jag inte ville ägna mig åt experimentell partikelfysik då. Det var nog rätt beslut, men definitivt ett av mina ”hur hade det varit om” i livet.

One of the coolest experiments! I like this prize. I didn’t predict it (it was on my list 10 years ago but didn’t happen) but did say we were due a particle prize.

Bell was less a snub and more that he died before the Bell tests were ready for an award, I think, but otherwise I agree. Sadly, I think if a prize were going to happen for Aharonov and Berry, it would have by now. But I may be pleasantly surprised in a couple of hours.

Även om modellen är påfallande enkel till konstruktion (om än inte beräkning!) är den flitigt använd och fungerar utmärkt för spektroskopiska beräkningar för förvånansvärt komplexa, verkliga molekyler.

Osannolikt, men sådana finesser tar vi överhuvudtaget inte hänsyn till. Molekylmodellen här är väldigt mycket "sfärisk ko": två elektronnivåer med optisk övergång emellan, var och en med en liten handfull vibrationstillstånd som växelverkar med omgivningen.