Tuesday morning I woke up grumpier than usual – and I usually wake up grumpy in the first place! It was the day that everyone in Canada went Back to …
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A series of pretty pictures on the Telegraph website: Artist Luke Jerram’s viral sculptures. Here’s SARS, looking very shiny: There’s more info on the artist’s website. Jerram is colour blind, …
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Completely unable to spend an entire month away from a work or education environment, I visited a school during my recent trip to Australia. But even though the school year …
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LOLcats and labrats was the session I proposed as a session at Science Online London’s “Fringe Frivolous” on Friday: The problem with science bloggers is that they’re scientists, and they …
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“Science may never come up with a better communication system than the coffee break”. I love this wall at the RI. Science Online at the RI was, ironically, a good …
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On the train: thoughts about scientists
Last month I took a legendary train trip: I travelled on “The Ghan” from Adelaide to Alice Springs. It takes about twenty-five hours, and the landscape doesn’t change in the …