Author Archives: Richard Wintle

About Richard Wintle

I am Canadian by heritage, and a molecular biologist and human geneticist by training. My day job is Assistant Director of a large genome centre, where I do various things along the lines of "keeping the wheels on". In my spare time, I tend to run around with a camera, often chasing horses, race cars, musicians, and occasionally, wildlife.

Thank you 40 million times (video)

Posted on 11 March 2012 by Richard Wintle

I’m not usually one to use a blogpost to point to “cool stuff on the internet”, but in this case I’ll make an exception. It’s no great secret that I work at Canada’s largest paediatric hospital, a place with something … Continue reading →

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Ottawa, Listeria, Genome Sequencing, and some pretty pictures. What more could you want?

Posted on 3 March 2012 by Richard Wintle

Recently, I found myself in Ottawa, a city best known as Canada’s capital, and notorious for being picturesque, quiet, and freezing cold half of the year. It’s also a city I’ve spent surprisingly little time in, given that my salary … Continue reading →

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Hockey Pool, Week 21, wherein I fail to win

Posted on 26 February 2012 by Richard Wintle

Just a quick update on Cath’s annual hockey pool, dominated in recent years by, er, not me. In week 21, Cath and I managed to make identical choices for all but three players – and her three different ones outperformed … Continue reading →

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Family Day – sans family

Posted on 21 February 2012 by Richard Wintle

And so, another holiday weekend has come and gone. While our cousins to the south have been enjoying Presidents’ Day (a.k.a. “Washington’s Birthday”, and no, I’m not getting into that debate, thank you very much), we here in the Province … Continue reading →

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Flying (non) Visit

Posted on 18 February 2012 by Richard Wintle

Just over a week ago, I had the opportunity to once again visit lovely Vancouver, Canada, a city I’ve frequently spent a day or so in for various grant-related review panels, strategy meetings, and the like. Always fly-in, fly-out, unfortunately … Continue reading →

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A New Angle of View, Part II

Posted on 28 January 2012 by Richard Wintle

Yes, I’m at it again. Hot on the heels of my acquisition, via the twenty-first-century e-commerce miracle that is Ebay, of a medium format film camera from 1937, I’ve spent another ten dollars (plus rather more for shipping) on another … Continue reading →

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Planetary

Posted on 18 January 2012 by Richard Wintle

It’s amazing what you can learn sometimes. Junior #2, now in grade four, is mired in the dreaded “gears and pulleys” science unit. Dreaded, I say, because I’m still scarred from Junior #1′s project, now two years past. In that … Continue reading →

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A New Angle of View

Posted on 14 January 2012 by Richard Wintle

Late in the year just past, I bought myself a present. And I used Ebay for the first time. Richard’s entered the twenty-first century, and yes, folks, that is the first horseman you see galloping over the horizon. Well, not … Continue reading →

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At Speed – Mosport, July 2011 [6]

Posted on 8 January 2012 by Richard Wintle

I warned you there’d be some car racing appearing here, and here’s the first of it. Don’t worry – I won’t be at any more races until the end of May, at the earliest. It’s partway through winter, and although … Continue reading →

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What is Blog? [28]

Posted on 5 January 2012 by Richard Wintle

I can still remember the first time I found out what a “blog” was. In the early part of this century, in a fit of pique at a former employer, I typed the word “twat” into Google, for want of … Continue reading →

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