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Author Archives: Athene Donald
How Do You Know How to Write a Thesis?
I wrote my PhD thesis so long ago it was typed for me by someone else based on my handwritten chapters; the diagrams were drawn laboriously and messily by me with a pen, ink and a fair number of smudges; … Continue reading
Posted in Communicating Science, Research, Science Culture
Tagged communication, examiners, PhD thesis, viva
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Start of Year Shenanigans
Having returned from a few days of holiday, I am feeling frivolous. So here is a sketch representing the Start of the Academic Year at the Department of Paintballing The main characters in this sketch are described in a previous … Continue reading
Some Things Never Change
One of the enjoyable consequences of carrying out reading tasks for publishers, is that often one can be paid ‘in kind’ with a miscellaneous collection of books up to some market value considerably more than any cheque they might otherwise … Continue reading
Posted in History of Science, Life in Science, Science Culture
Tagged Adam Sedgwick, David Elliston Allen, Thomas Huxley
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Knocking on Heaven’s Door
This book review first appeared in Times Higher Education on September 1st 2011. Knocking on Heaven’s Door: How Physics and Scientific Thinking Illuminate the Universe and the Modern World By Lisa Randall Bodley Head, 464pp, £20.00 ISBN 9781847920690 Published 1 … Continue reading
Posted in Communicating Science, Research
Tagged Higgs Particle, Large Hadron Collider, Lisa Randall
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Behind the Scenes at the Museum
I am really chuffed to find myself one of the new intake of Trustees for the National Museum of Science and Industry (NMSI), which incorporates the Science Museum in London and its companion near Swindon, the National Railway Museum in … Continue reading
Posted in Communicating Science, Education, Public Engagement
Tagged displays, school children, Science Museum
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