For the second time, I’ve been featured in a gallery on the website of popular photography magazine, Popular Photography (see what I did there?). So it’s time for some more shameless bragging, tempered with a mild introduction to one of Toronto’s more colourful and interesting streets, Spadina Avenue.
PopPhoto’s “Your Continue reading
What a week it’s been. Honestly, if you’d have made up this week’s news, nobody would have believed you. So, what have we had?
* A meteor exploded over Russia, quite close to the city of Chelyabinsk. Continue reading
We all love to be different – it seems to be a feature of much human activity that we cherish little foibles that set us apart. This is certainly true in the scholarly communications arena, though more recently journals have tried to harmonise some of their rules and requirements. Research funders too have a history of individuality, again wi Continue reading
I just saw this news that Statoil is to be allowed to drill holes in the bottom of the North Sea:
Continue readingI’m on my way to Newcastle to talk to their Women’s Network about confidence, and it’s made me think a lot more about the phrase ‘Feel the Fear and Do it Anyhow’ – the title of a book I must admit I’ve never read. It’s a catchy phrase that probably should be borne in mind by anyone being made, or encouraged to do, something that takes them out of t Continue reading
Following the discovery of the remains of the late King Richard III beneath what is now a car park, I invite my readers (both of them) to identify any other connections that car parks might have with celebrity. To start you off, I present this example, spotted on the wall of St. Giles’ car park in Norwich:
A blue plaque, recently.
I do worry Continue reading
If you’ve been following the news, or twitter, you’ll have noticed that the current pope, Pope Benedict XVI (pronounces Kss-vee) has decided to retire at the end of the month, to spend more time with his twitter account. Anyway, the Grauniad had an interactive thingy up, which, they suggested, “illustrates the idea that a long-ser Continue reading
As a rule, when I’m trying to be creative, I have a hard time focusing if my workspace is not pristine and well-ordered. This holds true whether I’m working on a novel at my desk or performing an experiment on my lab bench.
This is why I find a certain area in my lab a little bit distressing:
Boris Johnson, whom posterity will regard as the greatest statesman of this or any other age, has been wondering about the sauce source of the British taboo against the eating of horseflesh, while le cheval is quite de rigeur on the continong.
For those not up with the news, there have been quite a few reports of processed meat products labelled as Continue reading
#1 The Ribosome
