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Taken (wholesale!) from Random Knowledge Concentrate on the four small dots in the middle of the picture for 30 – 40 secs. Then look at any smooth single coloured surface near you (wall, paper,…). You will see a circle of … Continue reading →

The University of Oxford is advertising for a Transgenic Research Assistant. I would recommend applicants attach a photo of themselves taken under UV light. If you’re not glowing green, you may not be acceptable.

I was going to write a post about ecotrons, and explain the lamppost, but I’ve been too busy doing other stuff. So, instead here are some photos that I just took whilst perambulating around Tvärminne. I don’t know much about … Continue reading →

A lamppost, yesterday

Yes, the latest Scientia Pro Publica (Science for the People) was published today yesterday at Greg Laden’s Blog. Greg included one of my pieces, but there is also some good stuff there.

I’ve just been spammed by the American Chemical Society. The spam starts: Polymorphism Articles from Crystal Growth & Design Based on your previously published work related to polymorphism, we thought you might be interested in these recently published articles: and … Continue reading →

Over at Myrmecos, Alex Wild was musing about blogging about peer-reviewed research. One of his commenters, Psi WaveFunction, commented I don’t get the whole peer review worship going on in the general public as well as academia. It’s almost as … Continue reading →

This was another post, but I’m not sure what happens when you save rather than publish (there was a bug that screwed things up). I created it as a new post, but thought I’d do something with this one.

Admit it. Next February you all want to read read about the frozen wastes of Antarctica. Well, if you want to help you can. Grrlscientist has entered a competition for a blogger to go on a cruise to Antarctica, and … Continue reading →

It was Earth Day on April 22rd, and Mike Dunford started a blog meme around this. As you can see, I am (*ahem*) a bit late on this. I was so late that I decided to do this 2 months … Continue reading →