Monthly Archives: April 2011

Beating anger, damnit!

Posted on 5 April 2011 by Steve Caplan

I wasn’t intending to write this post–it just came to me in a sudden flash. Damn! Xv$$#5&&&!! That feels better.

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Hockey pool: penultimate update!

Posted on 4 April 2011 by Cath@VWXYNot?

Just one week to go until we crown a winner, and things are looking pretty tight at the top! Ricardipus made up some ground on first-placed Lavaland, and if I were them I’d be choosing this week’s players veeeeeery carefully … Continue reading →

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A Mystery Fish For You To Identify, And Other Stuff

Posted on 3 April 2011 by Henry Gee

While walking along the beach this afternoon, Canis croxorum alerted me to this washed-up fish. It’s a pretty common North Sea fish, I believe, though I have never seen one before. Its roe sometimes appears pseudonymously as caviar. Can you … Continue reading →

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I can hear you’re getting emotional

Posted on 2 April 2011 by Athene Donald

In the comments for my last post, J0ns1m0ns remarked that he thought the issue of mode of speaking at committee meetings was perhaps a bit of a red herring, but I fear inappropriate remarks and behaviour persist and shouldn’t, indeed … Continue reading →

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An image that’s hard to shake

Posted on 2 April 2011 by Steve Caplan

Reading (King) Richard’s blog “Silence is Golden” that addresses his very interesting short story published on LabLit.com, I couldn’t help thinking about an issue that has been bothering me these past couple weeks. Richard’s story occurs in a “lablit” setting—but … Continue reading →

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LinkedIn

Posted on 1 April 2011 by Henry Gee

April Foolz can haz struck LinkedIn…

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Cat on a hot tin MacBook

Posted on 1 April 2011 by Cath@VWXYNot?

Things are ramping up to crazy levels again, at work and elsewhere. Deadlines, side-projects, taxes (I actually managed to file weeks before the actual Canada Revenue deadline, for once!), unconference organisation, blogging, and trying to keep up with the twists … Continue reading →

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News

Posted on 1 April 2011 by rpg

Breaking News! It is with great pleasure that, after a lot of negotiation, I am able to announce that Occam’s Typewriter is moving! The good folk at Scientopia have agreed to pay all of us to blog for them. So … Continue reading →

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Rumours

Posted on 1 April 2011 by Henry Gee

Probably the most exciting paper I’ve ever handled at Your Favourite Weekly Professional Science Magazine Beginning With N was this one – on Homo floresiensis, a diminutive and very peculiar hominin from the island of Flores in Indonesia. The creature … Continue reading →

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