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Category Archives: rants
Alice’s Restaurant Massacree
In other news, Australia’s ongoing experiment with biological warfare doesn’t appear to be having any more success than it did with cane toads. “Killing dingoes has side effects” (and presumably not just for the dingoes) screams the Nature Research Highlights … Continue reading
Red Flags in the Dragons’ Den
It’s a well-known fact that watching certain films and TV shows with a scientist is no fun at all – in fact, it’s almost as bad as trying to watch ER with three medical student flatmates, as I did every … Continue reading
Posted in bad people, genomics, idiocy, rants, science, television, videos
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Facebook rant about Facebook cancer hoax
I just posted the following on Facebook, and thought I’d share it here, too – the wider the news that this is a hoax is disseminated, the better for everyone. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I’ve seen a Facebook post about cancer circulating among … Continue reading
Posted in bad people, cancer research, Medicine, publishing, quacks, rants, science
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Hockey is not the only sport
As a few of you may already know, the NHL season that usually begins in October still hasn’t started. The players and owners/league haven’t managed to agree to terms on revenue sharing and other issues, and as a result there’s another lockout … Continue reading
Posted in bad people, Canada, current affairs, personal, rants, sport, television
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On being mainstream
I know a lot of failed writers and editors—and pilots and athletes and actors and physicians. They’re all working in labs. Science!
Posted in careers, communication, defence, jobs, MOD, Public Engagement, RAF, rants, science
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FIRST!
So last night, I was enjoying a friendly Twitter argument with @ScientistMother and @27andaphd about Tim Hortons commercials. During the course of our conversation, it transpired that both ScientistMother (born in Canada to foreign-born parents) and I (born in the … Continue reading
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Be careful what you wish for…
…because you might just get it. I wished for Mr E Man to get a job, after a couple of months in which the local movie industry was as quiet as Stephen Harper’s conscience and two non-movie job offers both … Continue reading
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Bad cover version
Ever have one of those evenings? In the midst of following the conversation about an event at the Royal Society tonight, in which Vince Cable, Sir Paul Nurse and other luminaries discuss the future of science in the UK* (twitter … Continue reading
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