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Today’s Non Sequitur cartoon:

There’s a big election going on elsewhere, so hte blogosphere is full of discussions of interesting details, exhortations to vote, and suggestions for who to vote for. But the best post for today must go to George Orwell. His diary … Continue reading →

The more aware of you might have found time to raise your eyes from the microscope and see that there is an election going on in the USA. Far too many electrons have been sent whizzing around the Web2.0 for … Continue reading →

OK, it’s Friday and you lot don’t have anything to do either. But take heart, folks. The Great Beyond has just pointed to the Wildlife Photographer of the Year exhibition at the NHM. Lots of goodies there, but I did … Continue reading →

Browsing through the latest and greatest at NN, I noticed this new event posted by Matt Clarke’s Cabinets of Cures: Blood, Mermaids and Madness Am I the only one who thinks it sounds like Maxine’s critique of Henry’s LabLit novel?

I’ve been reading an article about hunting mortality, where the authors ask how we should arrange our hunting so as to mimic natural mortality. But they leave aside one very important question – why should we want to mimic natural … Continue reading →

I did my civic duty today, and braved the storms to vote. The Helsinki municipal elections aren’t quite as vital to the world’s interests as some other elections this autumn, but then they do boring things in Finland like talk … Continue reading →

An email has just been sent round our ecologists – one of those periodic attempts to organize communal storage in freezers. It included this little titbit (with my emphasis): During this month all the stuff in the room 1303 should … Continue reading →