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It’s Ada Lovelace Day, on which we’re encouraged to blog about women in science and technology. Having been a woman in chemistry and biology, I’ve never felt out of place …

I was in Cambridge last week and did a walking tour there (when it wasn’t raining) called 800 Years of Death and Disease in Cambridge. Sounds cheerful, doesn’t it? This …

At orchestra rehearsal last night, I failed miserably at keeping up with the Mozart piano concerto we’re playing. I don’t really like Mozart, and we’re also playing Haydn and Shostakovich …

I went up and down to New York this week, and watched people watch Lab Waste at the Imagine Science Film Festival. I was in a foul mood before the …

The Imagine Science Film Festival (ISFF) kicks off today in New York. I’ll miss most of the event, but since I have absolutely nothing better to do than sitting on …

After 6.5 years in Canadaland, I forgot that I learned some new words while here. Not many – about 2 per year – and most of them Canadian or otherwise …