Daily Archives: 23 March 2011

Census

Posted on 23 March 2011 by Henry Gee

Anyone in the U. of K. and not moving quickly enough to avoid it will have to complete a census form, providing what will be a snapshot of who is doing what, with whom, and where, on 27 March 2011. … Continue reading →

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Lunchtime Linkfest

Posted on 23 March 2011 by Cath@VWXYNot?

A quick round-up of what I’ve been reading and listening to! There’s a great article in Current Biology (my all-time favourite journal) this week, titled “Why should biomedical scientists care about biodiversity?”. The authors argue that working on the standard … Continue reading →

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Onions and Unconscious Bias

Posted on 23 March 2011 by Athene Donald

I have written before about my work on carrots, and it’s also the case that I have published on onions, in rather the same spirit as the carrot work: an environmental scanning electron microscopy study of onion failure, as well … Continue reading →

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Moving towards movement, by Jove

Posted on 23 March 2011 by Frank Norman

Sometimes you look round and realise that the world has changed. It has been changing little by little so gradually that you didn’t notice but then you realise “Aha! The much predicted and talked-about convergence of TV and computing has … Continue reading →

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