Monthly Archives: November 2009

I sat down the other day to prepare a figure for a paper I’m co-authoring, confident I’d have it dispatched in a matter of minutes. You can see where this is going already, can’t you? It was a relatively clean … Continue reading →

I don’t know about you, but I think today’s dramatic unmasking of scientist Brooke Magnanti as the mysterious call-girl Belle de Jour, blogger and titillating tell-all author, has just done wonders for the reputation of scientists. What could be more … Continue reading →

Some of my happiest moments have happened in the dark. I have a thing for darkrooms. Perhaps it was a bias promoted in early childhood; my father is an artist and during my formative years he was in the process … Continue reading →