Category Archives: Friday Fun

Ghost un-authorships

Posted on November 7, 2014 by Bob O'H

I’m currently reading Ben Goldacre’s Bad Pharma, in which he documents all the naughty things done by the Pharma industry. One of the many infelicities he mentions is their habit of ghostwriting academic papers, and then asking an academic to … Continue reading →

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Attack Budgies: leaks from the secret labs of GrrlScientist

Posted on October 11, 2013 by Bob O'H

This morning I was gravely offended by being described as an “attack parrot”. The offender’s mitigation was that he had originally wanted to call me an “attack budgie”, but had refrained, presumably because he thought an attack budgie sounded less … Continue reading →

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How oil companies are helping to combat global warming

Posted on February 15, 2013 by Bob O'H

I just saw this news that Statoil is to be allowed to drill holes in the bottom of the North Sea: Sure many will be pleased to hear that Statoil have been permitted to conduct a huge development in the … Continue reading →

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Science: girl things make you wince

Posted on June 22, 2012 by Bob O'H

On Fridays I usually try to put up trivial amusing stuff. So please take this is that spirit, because you really don’t want to take this seriously. Encouraging women into science has to be a good thing, and there are … Continue reading →

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Selecting Your LOLcats

Posted on May 11, 2012 by Bob O'H

The internet is a great thing, but it brings with it some problems. One of the future problems that we, as a civilisation, will face is the increased time we will be forced to spend finding the ideal photo for … Continue reading →

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The Reality of Pervasive, err, Something

Posted on April 27, 2012 by Bob O'H

I’m a fan of good quality graphs, and some just stand out. Including this one, from PLoS Biology last year:

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On Ugly and Not so Ugly Maths

Posted on December 2, 2011 by rpg

This week I’ve been writing a grant application. This has meant trawling through a pile of literature I wasn’t terribly familiar with. During that trawling I found this piece of rather ugly maths:

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What’s this?

Posted on September 2, 2011 by rpg

I’ve just been looking at a bit of central China on Google Maps. This bit: View Larger Map I’m curious what this place looks like. I’m interpreting it as terraces on the sides of a river valley, but that’s an … Continue reading →

Posted in Friday Fun, Science Blogging | 7 Comments

Explanations needed

Posted on August 26, 2011 by rpg

last Saturday GrrlScientist and I went for a walk in Oberursel. It’s a pretty town, but down a back street we found this tree: Upon this tree was a sign: This was rather puzzling. What were a wheel-y thing and … Continue reading →

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Oh yeah, this blog thing

Posted on August 23, 2011 by rpg

Oh, damn. I’ve been wondering what that crying was I’ve been hearing down the intertubes these last couple of months. It was my poor Blog Monster complaining that it needed feeding with posts. A six spot burnet, Zygaena filipendula, last … Continue reading →

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