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Author Archives: Athene Donald
What does Delusions of Gender tell us?
Delusions of Gender is a book that is clearly going to stir up a lot of interest from both sides of the nature-nurture debate. Are girls’ brains hardwired differently from boys at birth, due to the testosterone surge at 8 … Continue reading
What is required for successful interdisciplinary working?
Yesterday I cycled over to the Addenbrookes Site for a meeting with Maria Spillantini of the Brain Repair Unit. She is particularly interested in Parkinson’s Disease, and we were discussing the nature of protein aggregation in Lewy Bodies – abnormal … Continue reading
Bad – and maybe some Good – Science
This week’s THE has an article about mainstream science reporting (Trial by Error) and the quality, or lack thereof, has been the subject of many recent discussions on many blogs and in the mainstream press. It also ties into issues … Continue reading
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Tagged journalism, media training, scientific literacy
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Lawson, Willetts and Equality
Dearie me, it really is the silly season. Dominic Lawson, in today’s Independent, writes a perfectly sane piece about the fact that if more girls go to university than in the past, then necessarily there are fewer places for boys … Continue reading
Proteins turn up in many guises
I have just come back from a brief trip to the Netherlands to discuss a project on protein aggregation at high concentrations with collaborators from NIZO (a Dutch food research organisation) and Eindhoven University. This project – funded by a … Continue reading
