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Synopsis

Scaling behaviour is ubiquitous in physics and gives insights into diverse behaviour ranging from the quark structure of nucleons to the universality class of phase transitions.  In this colloquium, I will present a fundamental new scaling relation that appears to provide a universal description of the superfluid properties of a wide range of superconductors.  I will show how our collaboration, 鈥淭he Business of Gadflies鈥�, recently discovered the new scaling behaviour in the course of a long-running program aimed at testing the applicability of the Landau-BCS 鈥淪tandard Model鈥� of superconductivity to overdoped cuprate superconductors.