One advantage of working more-or-less right downtown in Toronto is that it’s possible, on occasion, to make time during the day to catch some interesting things going on.
I’ve spent some time recently wearing my official photographer’s hat for the Honda Indy Toronto, the annual race around the streets of Exhibition Place, which is Continue reading
Last week I spotted these words from Tolkien emblazoned on a poster (indeed several copies) on the walls of the tunnel which joins Imperial College and South Kensington Station. They seemed curiously apposite given what I had just been doing, contributing to a discussion of careers as part of the Life Sciences Post-Doc Symposium at Imperial. I woul Continue reading
Captions invited for this scene, taken at Blickling Hall in Norfolk, earlier today.
One of these days, I’ll treat myself to a proper camera attachment for my microscope. In the meantime, here’s what we can achieve by pointing the iPhone at one of the oculars.
And a movie:
Continue readingSo you may not know it, but one of the world’s premier scientific research facilities is in Oxfordshire.
Its not the University of Oxford I am referring to, but the ISIS neutron and muon source at Rutherford Appleton Lab outside of Didcot. This facility (along with the Diamond Light Source (X-rays) and others) is grouped under something cal Continue reading
There’s a picture of some bogglement doing the rounds on the inter webs, created by wimp.com. Here it is.
It’s a clever story. Continue reading
Now, I wonder how much traffic this’ll bring in? A post I wrote about chicken husbandry about three years ago continues to be popular in Pakistan and parts of the Middle-East. It was called Hot Girl-on-Girl Action.
Between Christmas 2005 and Easter 2006, I wrote a novel called The Sigil. I’d been a professional writer and editor for a while, having published a few books and innumerable articles – but I felt that I couldn’t really call myself a writer unless I’d at least tried some fiction. The act of writing was hugely enjoyable. I was Continue reading
I was challenged to write on this topic through Twitter, after Times Higher Education ran a story about the task of finding a new President and Provost to replace Malcolm Grant at UCL. The five names mentioned as ‘figures who might fit the bill’ were all male. An all male shortlist was also implied in the BBC’s Pallab Ghosh’s recent story on Continue reading
