Monthly Archives: March 2014

Virginia Woolf’s Messages for Today

Posted on 8 March 2014 by Athene Donald

Although I read many of her novels as a teenager, I only came to reading Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own somewhat late in life. I have recently reread it. On a second reading I am even more struck … Continue reading →

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Careful With That Amphioxus, Eugene

Posted on 7 March 2014 by Henry Gee

Spare a thought for the amphioxus, a humble marine creature which spends its adult life buried in sand, filtering particles of food from seawater using its beautiful and elaborate system of gill slits. On the left is a picture of … Continue reading →

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Tsundoku III

Posted on 7 March 2014 by Henry Gee

As it’s National Book week all this week, and yesterday was World Book Day, this lunchtime saw me indulging my tsundoku habit at the Break charity shop in Cromer (well, that’s my excuse.) This is what I bought: Peoples and … Continue reading →

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Sits Vac

Posted on 6 March 2014 by Henry Gee

One or other of you might be interested to know that a well-known weekly professional science magazine beginning with N is seeking a locum evolution and ecology editor to cover paternity leave for a 6-7 month period starting this June. … Continue reading →

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Hating Skyler White: reflection on gender roles in pop culture (guest post by Jane O’Hara)

Posted on 6 March 2014 by Cath@VWXYNot?

There are some TV characters that people love to hate. What’s the harm, you might say, when you know that they aren’t real people? But can these attitudes provide us with a mirror for some of the ugly ideas still … Continue reading →

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The Maison De Girrafes Caption Competition #306

Posted on 5 March 2014 by Henry Gee

Lunchtime the bright spring sun blazed down so the dogs took me to the beach. This is what it looked like. Not bad for lunchtime, eh? But I digress.

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More evidence for Lab Lit on the map!

Posted on 4 March 2014 by Steve Caplan

A quick search of Google Scholar yielded some of my publications on Jenny’s Lab Lit site, in addition to the expected scientific papers. If that’s not a sign of Lab Lit on the map, then I don’t know what is! … Continue reading →

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Authoration

Posted on 3 March 2014 by Henry Gee

Not having written any books lately about teenage vampires, schoolboy wizards, sadomasochism, cookery or gardening, the times I’ve been asked for advice about how to get a book published can be numbered on the fingers of one hand. (The times … Continue reading →

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Taking the Chair

Posted on 2 March 2014 by Athene Donald

I was interested to discover recently that candidates for the headship of a certain Cambridge college were required to chair a mock Governing Body meeting (this was not part of my own selection process at Churchill I should say). I … Continue reading →

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Where in the world?

Posted on 2 March 2014 by Erika Cule

Bloggers clam up! Quiz question: where were these two photos taken?

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