Monthly Archives: June 2012

The Maison Des Girrafes Caption Competition No. 366

Posted on 17 June 2012 by Henry Gee

Captions invited for this scene, taken at Blickling Hall in Norfolk, earlier today.

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On a drop of water

Posted on 17 June 2012 by rpg

One of these days, I’ll treat myself to a proper camera attachment for my microscope. In the meantime, here’s what we can achieve by pointing the iPhone at one of the oculars. And a movie:

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Why we need Neutrons for science

Posted on 16 June 2012 by Sylvia McLain

So you may not know it, but one of the world’s premier scientific research facilities is in Oxfordshire. Its not the University of Oxford I am referring to, but the ISIS neutron and muon source at Rutherford Appleton Lab outside … Continue reading →

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Solar

Posted on 14 June 2012 by Henry Gee

There’s a picture of some bogglement doing the rounds on the inter webs, created by wimp.com. Here it is. It’s a clever story.

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Gorgeous Scarcely-Clad Blonde Cavorts in Waves

Posted on 14 June 2012 by Henry Gee

Now, I wonder how much traffic this’ll bring in? A post I wrote about chicken husbandry about three years ago continues to be popular in Pakistan and parts of the Middle-East. It was called Hot Girl-on-Girl Action.

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Sigillary

Posted on 13 June 2012 by Henry Gee

Between Christmas 2005 and Easter 2006, I wrote a novel called The Sigil. I’d been a professional writer and editor for a while, having published a few books and innumerable articles – but I felt that I couldn’t really call … Continue reading →

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Do All Male Shortlists Matter?

Posted on 13 June 2012 by Athene Donald

I was challenged to write on this topic through Twitter, after Times Higher Education ran a story about the task of finding a new President and Provost to replace Malcolm Grant at UCL.  The five names mentioned as ‘figures who … Continue reading →

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PeerJ – a brave new world?

Posted on 12 June 2012 by Stephen

For me, one of the more appealing aspects of open access publishing is that by making costs transparent it could stimulate competition between publishers and generate innovative solutions to drive down prices. Today sees the launch of one such innovation: … Continue reading →

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Red Ink, Green Ink

Posted on 8 June 2012 by Athene Donald

Exam marking being much on my mind, as discussed in the last post, I was thinking about the way we annotate the scripts as we mark. The practice I am familiar with (although I have no idea how standard this … Continue reading →

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