Monthly Archives: December 2008

Forget the Large Hadron Collider: there are scarier things afoot right here in the heart of Suffolk. If you hear news of a black hole yawning open a few dozen miles northeast of Ipswich, it was only me, trying to … Continue reading →

The scientific method comes in many guises. During the past eighteen months in the lab, I have suffered from a severe lack of hypotheses. Or rather, I have been laboring under the umbrella of one very big, very broad hypothesis-with-a-capital-H: … Continue reading →

My non-scientist colleagues are often surprised to find out that I sing in a band. Granted, ‘singing in a band’ might sound a bit more edgy than the reality: a bunch of aging scientists, ex-scientists, Nature editors and miscellaneous non-sciency … Continue reading →

In many B-movies, machines try to take over the world. And in real life, we often joke about losing our lab jobs to them. As case in point, three of my five years in graduate school were largely consumed by … Continue reading →

The bad news is that The Royal Institution has unceremoniously booted the Fiction Lab (our monthly science novel book club) out of its august halls for the entirety of December, during which the famous Christmas Lectures take precedence. The good … Continue reading →