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Dogsplaining #19

Posted on 6 September 2013 by Henry Gee

Using only her eyebrows, Heidi the Dog expounds possible solutions to the conflict in Syria.
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She agrees with me (and probably also rpg) that one solution would be to carpet-bomb Damascus with cute fluffy kittens. UPDATE: Crox Minima, who has just come home from school, read this and suggested that Damascus could be bombed with the teddy-bears made Continue reading →

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Psoriasis

Posted on 6 September 2013 by Henry Gee

Time was when I thought psoriasis was an obscure pharaoh, possibly one of the late and degenerate Ptolemies. Or possibly a small town in Kansas (pop. 207).

Until I got it myself. Continue reading →

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Simple models can lead to generality in ecology

Posted on 6 September 2013 by Bob O'H

ResearchBlogging.orgIt’s always nice to read a paper that is obviously wrong, but where you have to think about why it is wrong. Because it makes you, well, think. And sometimes learn something new. So when I see a paper in TREE with the title “Do simple Models lead to generality in ecology?“, it’s clear that it’s going to answer “n Continue reading →

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Snapped and Snatched

Posted on 5 September 2013 by Richard Wintle

Recently, I lost my camera.

Bye-bye, Nikon
A photographer and somebody else’s Nikon.

Fortunately, I got it back, but not after the young photographer pictured above was done with it. Continue reading →

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Simple models do lead to generality in ecology

Posted on 4 September 2013 by Bob O'H

It’s always nice to read a paper that is obviously wrong, but where you have to think about why it is wrong. Because it makes you, well, think. And sometimes learn something new.

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Transport

Posted on 4 September 2013 by Henry Gee

This year marks the 75th anniversary of the Kindertransports.

On the night of 9/10 November, 1938, Jewish homes and businesses across Nazi Germany were trashed – an event known as Kristallnacht, Night of Broken Glass. Five days later, a delegation of Jews and Quakers appealed to the British government to waive the usual immigration controls a Continue reading →

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Sheket!

Posted on 2 September 2013 by Henry Gee

A little while ago I was with a group of family and friends discussing the Bilderberg Group, a kind of un-conference in which the world’s movers and shakers can get together and discuss matters of great import in an informal setting. As the discussions are entirely off-the-record, the hope is that the world’s business leaders and politi Continue reading →

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Bodies

Posted on 2 September 2013 by Henry Gee

Crox Minor (15), who has just gotten three GCSE examinations out of the way (all with A*s, I might add), and is embarking on a lot more this year, wants to be a surgeon. She has her heart set on the University of Cambridge which, she says, has one of the very few medical schools left in the UK that still does full-body dissection.

I was amazed by t Continue reading →

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Cake

Posted on 1 September 2013 by Henry Gee

Earlier today the Croxii collectively attended my sister’s birthday party, which was held at her family’s beach hut on Cromer West Beach (the déclassé end of Cromer, if you ask me, but we’ll let that pass)
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Cromer West Beach, earlier today.

… and Mrs Crox baked a chocolate cloud cake for the occasion.

The cake was gluten-fre Continue reading →

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Thinking about your CV

Posted on 1 September 2013 by Athene Donald

There are many different ways of writing one’s CV, and hitting the right spot is not always straightforward. Speaking personally, the postdoc applicant who writes that they are ‘a highly motivated and aspirational individual, with a strong sense of self-worth and drive who is looking for swift advancement in academia‘ merely makes Continue reading →

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