Academics, especially those dealing with politics, have long had a blurred line dividing work and leisure, but this line has become even less defined after the pandemic began. And this increasingly blurry line—this melding of the work and leisure spheres—has made burnout feel even bleaker. For Adam B. Lerner, the colonisation of the private space by employers due to work from home mandates and “draconian” restrictions on leisure has made burnout more entrenched in the global crises that overwhelmed him and possibly many other academics. Read full article here
Science
‘Ghostly’ neutrinos provide new path to study protons
In groundbreaking research, an international collaboration of scientists from the University of Rochester have used a beam of neutrinos to measure the size and shape of the protons that make up the nuclei of atoms. This feat, once thought impossible, provides scientists with a new way of looking at the small components of an atom’s nucleus and opens up a wealth of new information about the structure of an atom’s nucleus and the dynamics of the forces that affect neutrino interactions. The researchers solved the challenge of harnessing neutrinos in large numbers by using a neutrino detector containing a target of both hydrogen and carbon atoms, and over nine years of data collection at Fermilab’s accelerator. Read full article here
Merv
March 25, 2023
