Monthly Archives: July 2011

Echoes

Posted on 13 July 2011 by rpg

At the pub the other night, I was asking how a friend was doing. He was particularly busy, it appears, because he had to attend students’ exhibitions, located inexplicably at inconvenient and distant locations the length and breadth of town. … Continue reading →

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Feelings

Posted on 13 July 2011 by Henry Gee

For those who have been sheltering in a bunker buried 37 miles beneath the Lunar regolith for the past week, you won’t have heard that the News of the World, a tabloid pwned owned by one Mr R. M. of … Continue reading →

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Mr. President, can you save science, please?

Posted on 12 July 2011 by Steve Caplan

Scientists love to complain. That is not to say that they enjoy the situation that they are complaining about, but to me it seems as though in the US there is a level of fatalism that translates into inertia. And … Continue reading →

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Lab-fab abs and post-lab flab

Posted on 12 July 2011 by Cath@VWXYNot?

And bend and stretch and rack those tips and run to the water bath to rescue your samples and walk to the fridge to put them away and lift that big heavy bottle of isopropanol onto your bench and run … Continue reading →

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Train

Posted on 11 July 2011 by Henry Gee

I write this blog one-thumbed on my iPhone in a standing position on a packed train leaving Liverpool Street. It’s leaving 20 minutes late because the staff needed a break, because the train was an hour and a half coming … Continue reading →

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Zoo

Posted on 10 July 2011 by Henry Gee

This afternoon the Croxii were guests at a private function at London Zoo. We got a chance to toddle round the exhibits. Being us, we were especially keen to visit the reptiles and amphibians… All Your Rainforest Are Belong To … Continue reading →

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PalaeoPenguin

Posted on 9 July 2011 by Henry Gee
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Nicosia, there I went…

Posted on 9 July 2011 by Steve Caplan

A short time ago Larnaca, Cyprus made the news for holding a large civilian wedding for multiple couples from Israel. I have already blogged about the discriminatory policy that a successful start-up country and high-tech power such as Israel has … Continue reading →

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Mata Penguin

Posted on 8 July 2011 by rpg

You just know this isn’t going to turn out well.

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A Houstonian’s Reluctant Ode to Atlantis, STS-135 [12]

Posted on 8 July 2011 by KristiV

*Soundtrack: Last Rendez-Vous (Ron’s Piece) ~ Jean Michel Jarre I’m not a technophile, and harbor no Top Gearian tendencies to become emotional over a BMW or an Opel Cadet or a flight in a jet fighter; I’m much more likely … Continue reading →

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