Monthly Archives: April 2013

Hockey Pool, Weeks 10 and 11

Posted on 9 April 2013 by Cath@VWXYNot?

I can’t believe the regular season’s almost over! I managed to make it to a game last week, which was awesome, especially because the friend who invited me – an Oilers fan – was convinced the Canucks were going to … Continue reading →

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Off to the other side of the world

Posted on 8 April 2013 by Bob O'H

This is just a brief announcement to explain that as this publishes I should be off on my travels again. This time I’m going further than ever before (no, I’m not travelling by standing on the shoulders of giants). I’m … Continue reading →

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Broken Teeth

Posted on 7 April 2013 by rpg

M’good friend Dr Gee apparently has a thing about bones. Anything he can do, I can do better, so, in the absence of any biological modelling this week, here’s one for you paleontologists: To me, it looks like a fossilized … Continue reading →

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Shooting The Badger

Posted on 7 April 2013 by Henry Gee

Crox Minor, for it is she, can never resist the urge to do the Harlem Shake in public, so jumped at the chance to don a badger mask and do the aforesaid shimmy to raise awareness about the prospect of … Continue reading →

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Another Mystery Bone For You To Identify

Posted on 7 April 2013 by Henry Gee

A while ago I posted a beachcombing of a bone found on the East Beach at Cromer, which my Friend Mr P. V. of Lewisham (who regularly entertains such images in his blog, Zygoma) identified as the humerus of a … Continue reading →

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On portrayals of women in science(y) films

Posted on 7 April 2013 by Sylvia McLain

There is a feminist critical film theory from the 70′s that pointed out (rather astutely) that in many films women where just there to be looked at. Men did stuff, women were present either for visual pleasure, or simply as … Continue reading →

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Systematic Errors of Judgement

Posted on 7 April 2013 by Athene Donald

To tie in with International Women’s Day, last month Nature ran a series of articles about the issues still facing women in science and also a podcast with Uta Frith and myself debating some of the issues. The interviewer, Charlotte … Continue reading →

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Margaret McCartney at Skeptics in the Pub

Posted on 7 April 2013 by Erika Cule

Back in 2009, Hal Varian, Chief Economist at Google, said in an interview I keep saying the sexy job in the next ten years will be statisticians. More recently, his review of Nate Silver‘s The Signal and the Noise, Larry … Continue reading →

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The scientist as a squirrel

Posted on 4 April 2013 by Steve Caplan

What does one need to obtain grant funding in these tough times? *Overcoming obstacles *Fierce determination *Exceptional creativity and ingenuity *Proof of feasibility *Above all, persistence and resilience In short, behave like this squirrel that entertained us all through dinner.

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Tolkien in Cromer

Posted on 3 April 2013 by Henry Gee

I knew that J. R. R. Tolkien had once visited Norwich, but imagine my shock and awe at the news, communicated by my friend Mr M. A.

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