Monthly Archives: December 2011

Winter cometh [11]

Posted on 11 December 2011 by Steve Caplan

Winter cometh to our lilac bush, recently The problem with being a scientist, and a cell biologist as such, is that everything reminds me of cellular organelles. These icicles remind me of the membrane bound tubules involved in endocytic recycling…

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Deer OT ….

Posted on 10 December 2011 by KristiV

…. I wish you a belated Happy Birthday! I’m preparing for a meeting, so I got nothing at the moment, except some photos of wacky white-tailed deer, hanging out on campus.

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A year… only partially digested

Posted on 10 December 2011 by Austin

So Occam’s Typewriter is a year old. Where does the time go…? (No answers involving quantum theory, please. Or homeopathy.

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…And so say all of us…and so say all… [11]

Posted on 10 December 2011 by Steve Caplan

My belated congrats–couldn’t resist joining in, although I was a latecomer. So a quick ramble: One day, I was minding my gap, when someone came up to me and said, “I have a confession–I was driving by the city limits … Continue reading →

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Regions

Posted on 9 December 2011 by Henry Gee

My apologies for being late to the party. I could plead that I missed the bus, thinking – mistakenly, as it turned out – that it went to the station, but I shall not plumb that particular chthonos. I shall … Continue reading →

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Is this a post? [20]

Posted on 9 December 2011 by Frank Norman

Today is a special day on Occams Typewriter. One year ago the site burst onto the blogosphere. I had an idea to write a witty history of Occams Typewriter in the form of a Christmas carol, but I didn’t have … Continue reading →

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Stocktake

Posted on 9 December 2011 by Erika Cule

One year since the launch of Occam’s Typewriter, one year since my MPhil to PhD upgrade exam, and one year (more or less) to go until the end of the PhD. This seems a suitable place for stocktaking. This year’s … Continue reading →

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On cell porn and laser beams [12]

Posted on 9 December 2011 by rpg

As you might have gathered, I’ve got a bit of a thing going for lasers. Seeing as I’m a certified biologist—or biochemist, at least—what better way to celebrate Occam’s first birthday than by writing about a combination of the two? … Continue reading →

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In which we down a few [14]

Posted on 9 December 2011 by Jennifer Rohn

It seems like only yesterday that Nature Network, in what struck me as a bizarre fit of misplaced paranoia and pettiness, locked some of its most popular bloggers out of their own sites, preventing them from posting their own farewell … Continue reading →

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All Human Life is There (Happy 1st Birthday OccamT)

Posted on 9 December 2011 by Athene Donald

The first part of this statement was once the proud motto of the now deceased and unlamented News of the World. In a friendlier vein, compared with many of the ignorant witch hunts they pursued and the dirt they used … Continue reading →

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