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Monthly Archives: December 2012
Context is everything (Part II)
Microsoft continues to crack me up: Certain PIs of my acquaintance may agree that they’re involved in too many projects, but I doubt anyone’s ever said the words “too many publications”… (Part I here)
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Cosmic
My book The Science of Middle-earth is now available for your Kindle, and given the release of Peter Jackson’s film The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, I am soon going to start tolkien to myself. But before that, I should like … Continue reading
Posted in astrophysics, cosmic, galaxy, hobbitry, rachael livermore, Science Is Vital, tolkien, Writing & Reading
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Christmas wouldn’t be Christmas without Carbon
I may not know much about Chemistry but I know what I like. And I like carbon. In fact, I’ve decided that it’s my favourite element. I’ll tell you why in the short video below, which is part of the … Continue reading
Posted in Carbon, communication, Protein Crystallography, Royal Institution, science communication
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More to a sinner
When people ask who were my influences, I find it difficult to give a straight answer. I cannot name a childhood hero in whose footsteps I wanted to follow, neither was there someone whose guidance or mentoring I’d particularly like … Continue reading
Posted in angels, apes, grace, Ill-considered rants, influences, inspirations, One Isaiah than the other, Patrick Moore, People, personal
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Reverse genetics, ok, but reverse shoplifting?
Most of us in the biomedical sciences will be familiar with the term coined “reverse genetics-” namely the use of DNA sequences to understand the function of a gene by testing for phenotypes. But how about “reverse shoplifting?!” I recently … Continue reading
Posted in author, authors, humor, lab lit, novels, promoting, reverse genetics, reverse shoplifting, science, shopdropping
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Splattering Cream across Tradition
The Royal Institution is a venerable organisation: dating back to 1799, it is situated in an amazingly impressive building on Albemarle Street in London. This was the road that became the original one way street in order to cope with … Continue reading
Posted in Biological Physics, Communicating Science, Friday Evening Discourse, goo, Royal Institution
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Dear Santa
I think I have finally found the synthesizer for me (note – in what follows, anyone who doesn’t self-identify as a geek or gear-head can look away.) It’s a Dave Smith Instruments Prophet 08. As you both know I play … Continue reading
Posted in dave smith instruments, keyboards, korg, Music, sequential circuits, yamaha
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Chuffed
Time to brag a little, I think. Lazily flipping through the content on the website of Popular Photography, my new favourite magazine, I was tickled pink to come across this: The two or three of you who read this blog … Continue reading
Posted in Agfa, Film, Hobbies, magazines, Photography, Popular Photography, Silette
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