Monthly Archives: March 2020

Working From Home

Posted on 28 March 2020 by Athene Donald

Hugh Kearns wrote this week Don’t compare your work output this week with other weeks. These are not normal times so don’t expect your normal output. Things will take longer. There are most disruptions and distractions. It’s hard to focus.

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Aphorism

Posted on 23 March 2020 by Erika Cule

Do one day at a time. If you can’t do a day at a time, do an hour at a time. If you can’t do an hour at a time, go minute by minute. If you can’t do minutes, do … Continue reading →

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In Time of Crisis – Be Kind

Posted on 22 March 2020 by Athene Donald

In A Time of Crisis You might think that our present, extraordinary and challenging global circumstances might call for ‘patience, flexibility, practicality and ability to withstand misfortune’. All of those traits do indeed need to be practiced now as we, … Continue reading →

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What is it like to go dating for the first time?

Posted on 22 March 2020 by Erika Cule

In the video, I explore what it is like to go dating for the first time. With thanks to Kate Smurthwaite (who introduces me here and who taught me stand-up comedy), City Academy (through whom I took this course) and … Continue reading →

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In which we home-school science: introducing #HomeSci, a social media experiment

Posted on 20 March 2020 by Jennifer Rohn

Joshua channeling his inner boffin at dress-up time From this coming Monday in the United Kingdom, all schools are closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. This means that many parents will be working from home and looking after their children … Continue reading →

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Why it matters

Posted on 19 March 2020 by Nicola Spaldin

There’ve been a few times during the last couple of weeks, as we’ve been shutting down our labs to an accompaniment of tragic news reports of horrible human suffering around the world, that I’ve asked myself whether struggling on with … Continue reading →

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In which the pandemic unfolds: a postcard from The Big One?

Posted on 15 March 2020 by Jennifer Rohn

Epidemics are works in progress. At any given moment in time, you can’t know how they will end. They are a curve on a graph of ultimately unknown trajectory; when you are just a dot on a growing curve, you … Continue reading →

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Preliminary lessons from a global pandemic

Posted on 8 March 2020 by Steve Caplan

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) map of COVID-19 infections as of March 8, 2020 1)         All humans on this planet are one species, with a genetically identical composition. The Coronavirus doesn’t distinguish between any of the so-called “races” … Continue reading →

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Do We Need International Women’s Day?

Posted on 8 March 2020 by Athene Donald

It’s International Women’s Day. Another year when many of us are thinking how amazing it would be if we didn’t need such a day any longer, specifically celebrating women, because people of whatever gender, colour, age, health status….. were celebrated … Continue reading →

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The Coronaviral lie detector

Posted on 1 March 2020 by Steve Caplan

Coronavirus cover from the Journal of Biological Chemistry’s virtual issues. Back in Oct. 2019, the Washington Post’s Glenn Kessler had counted 13,435 lies or false claims by President Donald Trump. They came in all shapes and sizes, large and small, … Continue reading →

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