It’s the end of August, and high time I wrote something about my gig as a credentialed media photographer for the Honda Indy Toronto race weekend, back in July.
The bridge, a subtle reminder that this is the Honda Indy Toronto.
Each of the past four years that I’ve done this, I’ve made time during race week to get to pre-race pub Continue reading
This post has nothing to do with science. Seamus Heany is dead.
I am only begining to process what that means to me. I claim no deep knowledge of his poetry but it has been with me for a long time. Continue reading
Notwithstanding inasmuch as which the recollections of those few you who remember why chez Crox is sometimes known as the Maison des Girrafes, there has been little evidence of same, either in the Maison itself, or in the Jardin adjacent. That lacuna has now been filled handsomely by our newest arrival.
Welcome, then, Geraldine, who is made of sma Continue reading
(Title translation provided by Google Translate, so please don’t moan at me! It’s not my fault I didn’t have a Classical education ;-p)
I heard a nice little riddle while catching up on NPR’s Sunday Puzzle podcast this morning, and thought I’d share. I’ll moderate all comments until Saturday morning Vancouver tim Continue reading
Last week an article entitled ‘Why Do So Many Incompetent Men Become Leaders?‘, published in the Harvard Business Review, was brought to my attention (thanks Kate Bellingham!). Written by a (male) Professor of Business Psychology at University College London (UCL), Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic, it included many choice phrases. Examples that Continue reading
I observed recently how the rise of the internet has eliminated letter writing and so caused some of the wells of correspondence that historians and biographers have relied on down through the ages to fall into disuse. But the internet is not all bad as far as reaching into the past is concerned. In fact, it can preserve and propagate memories in w Continue reading
Over the last 6 weeks, 2 of my 6 graduate students have defended their dissertations and graduated–which brings me great joy in that they were each highly sought after and both will be heading to outstanding research labs of their choice to continue their training and careers.
My two young newly-minted PhDs and yours truly, recently.
I look Continue reading
I’m getting involved with a bold and brilliant new project in the fine city of Norwich. It’s a sixth-form college specializing in science and maths, launched under the government’s Free Schools program. After vaulting a number of planning hurdles, the Sir Isaac Newton Sixth Form opens for business next month in temporary digs, but Continue reading
I’m getting involved with a bold and brilliant new project in the fine city of Norwich. It’s a sixth-form college specializing in science and maths, launched under the government’s Free Schools program. After vaulting a number of planning hurdles, the Sir Isaac Newton Sixth Form opens for business next month in temporary digs, but Continue reading
Yesterday I promised a run-down of my holiday reading, so, without further ado, and in no particular order, I shall start with Deer Island, a memoir by Neil Ansell – a short book, but in its way, perfectly formed. Ansell recounts his life as a secular mendicant, working with the long-term homeless and other hard cases left behind in Margaret Continue reading
