Monthly Archives: August 2008

In some long-forgotten undergraduate anthropology course, I learned that our primitive ancestors spent no more than twenty hours a week on sustenance activities. The logical extension was, of course, that our forty-hour-plus work ethic was a sort of modern madness. … Continue reading →

It is a grey, rainy bank holiday weekend here in London so my news is appropriately frivolous. If you inspect the image below, you will see that my local Tesco supermarket in Surrey Quays shopping center is carrying an own-brand … Continue reading →

When I returned to the lab last year, I wasn’t just changing fields of expertise: I was encountering a whole new way of doing science. Instead of tinkering on one gene or pathway, I found myself thrown headlong into the … Continue reading →

For those of you who’ve been away on holiday and are struggling with your first few days back at the bench, I feel your pain, brothers and sisters. It is a truth universally acknowledged that in the wind-down to significant … Continue reading →

Having just touched down in London from SciFoo 2008, I stare, tinged with jetlag, at the blank page and wonder how anyone could adequately summarize a get-together so bizarrely wonderful. Spoiled for choice Dueling, self-organized sessions at the Googleplex in … Continue reading →