Monthly Archives: July 2011

In which science kicks caterpillar ass, and other tales

Posted on 28 July 2011 by Jennifer Rohn

Sometimes I can go an entire day without seeing most of my fellow lab mates. I’ve been stuck at the computer in my office recently; various other colleagues are holed up in faraway microscope rooms or sequestered in the Fly … Continue reading →

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Interview Skills, Careers Advice and Social Mobility

Posted on 26 July 2011 by Athene Donald

Recently the Sutton Trust published an analysis of the relative successes different schools had in getting students into different universities: Oxbridge, the broader cohort of ‘top’ universities referred to as the Sutton 30, and universities overall.  One of the schools … Continue reading →

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Subscription rage

Posted on 26 July 2011 by Frank Norman

Supermarkets are confusing places these days. There are two-for-one offers (BOGOF – buy one get one free) and variations thereon (buy two get one half price, etc etc), combo offers (buy three similar products together for a cheaper price than … Continue reading →

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Update on two previous posts…

Posted on 26 July 2011 by Cath@VWXYNot?

…because I know you’ve all been on the edge of your seats. 1) We had the “good riddance, pink form!” party that my colleague suggested when our internal grant review form was retired. Someone made pink cupcakes, I brought pink … Continue reading →

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Chess and the battle of the ages [9]

Posted on 25 July 2011 by Austin

I’ve decided to separate the actual chess GAME I played last week, and that I was talking about in the last post, into a separate post here. The main reason for this is that specifically chess analysis-related comments can now … Continue reading →

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On tits and sparrows

Posted on 25 July 2011 by rpg

Opposite the advertisement for the Grant Arms Hotel, Grantown-on-Spey (“The Wildlife Hotel”) in Autumn 2011′s Birds magazine from the RSPB, Caroline Nash tells us she’s helping to save sparrows. As you might know, sparrows—which for some of us are the … Continue reading →

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Where to put the chess? [8]

Posted on 25 July 2011 by Austin

In which I ponder where to hide my latest, and oldest, obsessive enthusiasm… I have another of my chess games, played last week, I thought I might post up… but as I was thinking about this, a question arose. Or … Continue reading →

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Chile-ing out

Posted on 25 July 2011 by Steve Caplan

This post comes on the heels of the heat wave that we’ve been suffering through (and my dreams of glaciers and mountains), here in the American Middle-West, which in itself comes in the wake of the flood. It also comes … Continue reading →

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Snakes

Posted on 24 July 2011 by Henry Gee

We’ve had our snake Sid for some time now. Here she is, earlier today: Sid is a corn snake (Elaphe guttata). We think she’s a ‘she’, based on the morphology of the tail, but don’t know for sure. Corn snakes … Continue reading →

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Dilemma [17]

Posted on 24 July 2011 by Erika Cule

As well as a dilemma, we have the potentially useful term trilemma and even tetralemma (the choice between two, three or four options respectively). But a lemma, in mathematics anyway, is a stepping-stone in a proof, and does not mean … Continue reading →

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