Science at home

Last week, I found out about the Tumblr blog F No, Chemical Free with images of products that supposedly contain no chemicals at all.It reminded me of a story from …

Abstract I made instant mocha at work and am now writing a silly blog post about it. Introduction In this 24-hour economy, the modern workforce has little time to consume …

Sometimes I put things off for too long. In December 2008, right after I defended my thesis, my friend Liesbeth e-mailed me to ask if I wanted to write about …

I suddenly have a million things to do, but managed to briefly distract myself with this kymograph image by AnimalDetector that I found in the Flickr pool: It’s a kymograph …

Less than three months away from the lab, and already I am completely dumb when it comes to thinking scientifically. I went skiing today. When I returned the rentals after …

Playing with Google Trends is a favourite pastime of geeks. You can look at searches that are more popular in certain locations compared to others, and you compare the popularity …