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Monthly Archives: June 2011
Put your money where your snack is!
One of the nice things of living in Omaha is the variety of great summer camps available for kids. In the course of the last eight years here, our kids have been attending a huge number of really exciting and … Continue reading
Posted in celebrity nutritionist, dietician, do-as-I-say-not-as-I-do, education, fitness, healthy snacks, junk food, nutrition, science, science camps
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Waiting for my congratulatory telegram from the Queen
I realised recently that I’ve: lived in our current house for five years, which is longer than I’ve lived anywhere since I left my parents’ house (previous record: two years and two months in a shared flat in Glasgow during … Continue reading
City Lights (Slight Return)
I regret to announce that cromercrox, for it is he, deleted the original version of this post, entirely by accident. Here it is again, dragged out from some cache or another, though of course without all y’all’s insightful comments. We … Continue reading
Posted in big boots would have been better than crox, chthonic, hieronymous bosch, jeremiad, no coach parties, Science Is Vital, Silliness, Writing & Reading
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What Will the Future Look Like?
What follows is a book review I have written for the Times Higher Education Supplement (THE) published today. Physics of the Future: How Science Will Shape Human Destiny and our Daily Lives by the Year 2100 By Michio Kaku Allen … Continue reading
Posted in book review, Communicating Science, futuristic science, Michio Kaku, Research
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City Lights
A few nights ago I was reading a bedtime story to Crox Minima. The story was The Tale of Johnny Town Mouse, a Beatrix Potter classic. The tale isn’t really about Johnny Town Mouse – it’s more about Timmy Willie, … Continue reading
Posted in alaska, beatrix potter, country life, functional magnetic resonance imaging, Research, the tale of johnny town mouse, Writing & Reading
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Trees do the darndest things! (Part II)
TREE HUG! Awwwww! (Part I is here, if anyone cares to relive the horror).
Here comes Impact
In UK scientific circles and the wider realm of academia impact has been around for a while now. Grant forms incorporate large blank spaces in which applicants are required to outline their plans for ensuring that the work they hope … Continue reading
Posted in communication, impact, science, Science & Politics, Science policy
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No con/census consensus
Dilemmas, dilemmas… life is full of them. However, there are two in particular that are causing me much internal debate at the moment: The census It’s census time in Canada! Every household in the country is obliged to fill in … Continue reading
Posted in activism, bad people, Canada, current affairs, personal, Politics, rants
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Yes, We Can Have Bananas! [19]
On the whole, I’m a fan of Barbara Kingsolver’s book Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, in which she documents her family’s experiment with a year-long local, seasonal diet. However, I disagree with her about bananas, which she portrays as a Fruit with … Continue reading
Posted in air travel, bananas, book reviews, carbon dioxide equivalents, carbon footprint, climate change, crocs
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Scientific Breadth: The Good and the Bad
This week I am giving three different major talks; no, not just ‘different’, utterly and totally different. This is definitely a week of diversity in my powerpoint presentations, though none of them is actually about diversity. Linking in to a … Continue reading
Posted in career progression, interdisciplinarity, Interdisciplinary Science, promotion, Research, Science Culture
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