Daily Archives: 30 September 2012

Cold Turkey

Posted on 30 September 2012 by Steve Caplan

Why did the turkeys cross the road? How on earth would I know? They aren’t exactly the most brilliant species alive…

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What does the Higgs boson look like? (Audio Version)

Posted on 30 September 2012 by Stephen

As an little experiment I sat down and recorded an audio version of my Occam’s Corner post on the historical account of the difficulties that scientists had in accepting the reality of atoms. You can listen here:  

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Weird critters

Posted on 30 September 2012 by Cath@VWXYNot?

I’ve found myself favouriting several similar posts from the “Dropping The Science” RSS feed lately, with no clear idea about what I was going to do with them. So here they are, in all their weird and wonderful glory, for … Continue reading →

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Leadership, Management and Role Models

Posted on 30 September 2012 by Athene Donald

This week I participated in a conversation on leadership issues in front of an audience of women leaders from the Museum world. The conversation, facilitated/chaired by Vivienne Parry, was with Professor Anne Johnson, an epidemiologist from UCL whom I had … Continue reading →

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