Time it took me to write two pages of my thesis: about an hour over coffee at the local coffee place. Time it took me to find, print, catalogue, read, …
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There’s a group on Facebook called “Six Degrees of Separation”. It was started by writer Steve Jackson, as research for a novel he was writing. In his book he explored …
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Jim Thomas came to SciBarCamp as a participant but also took the opportunity to write a great article about it for Science and Public Affairs, for the British Association for …
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Community & eventsScience CommunicationWriting, images, and storytelling
Oliver Smithies lecture at the University of Toronto
I went to a lecture by Oliver Smithies this morning. I most enjoyed his stories of things that didn’t work. His PhD thesis that nobody ever read, his inventions that …
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Outreach & engagementScience CommunicationScience on screenWriting, images, and storytelling
Help me make a video about lab waste
I’m making a little video about lab waste. The whole thing will be thrown online under a Creative Commons license when it’s done, and right now I’m also using about …
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I know it’s not real by any stretch of the imagination, but isn’t there a far more reasonable explanation than aliens in this short bit of Doctor Who? (It starts …