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Bucket List and 2012 Resolutions [22]

Posted on 30 December 2011 by Cath@VWXYNot?

Bucket List

The plan is to add at least one new item every time I tick one off!

  1. Write at least one book (and get it published)
  2. Run for political office (and preferably win)
    3. Continue reading →
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Impressions from a Parallel Universe [13]

Posted on 29 December 2011 by Steve Caplan

Research and life have many things in common. In particular, it has always intrigued me that when following a line of research in the lab, we are constantly presented with branching points that make it imperative to make decisions about what path to pursue. In fact, in almost any line of research that my lab has ever undertaken, we almost inevitabl Continue reading →

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Decisions [7]

Posted on 27 December 2011 by Henry Gee

Quite a lot has happened in the Maison des Girrafes during 2011.
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Crox Minima started at high school, making her Dad proud, and Crox Minor was Bat-Mitzvah, bringing tears of joy to the eye of this atheist (Jewish Section);

The Maison des Girrafes became a Palazzo

complete with home-made furniture

and scavenged hardware.
Taps
As an aside, here is the Continue reading →

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The Gift of Pink [19]

Posted on 27 December 2011 by Athene Donald

So, the presents are unwrapped, the turkey (or nut roast) consumed and the levels of alcohol in the blood perhaps beginning to recede.  It’s time to regroup, to start drawing up that list of good resolutions for 2012 and to reflect on the festive season. Or perhaps, dear reader, you just think it’s time to sleep in front of the box and try to run a Continue reading →

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The Twelve Days of (a Lab) Christmas [2]

Posted on 25 December 2011 by rpg

On the first day of Christmas my true love sent to me

A postdoc with her own grant.

On the second day of Christmas my true love sent to me

Two PhDs,
and a postdoc with her own grant. Continue reading →

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In which we are the last man standing [4]

Posted on 23 December 2011 by Jennifer Rohn

You know it’s the last day before Christmas break when:

1. All of the communal microscopes are free, so you can run lots of parallel experiments.
2. Whenever you enter a room or corridor, the automatic lights flicker on. Continue reading →

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Legs [8]

Posted on 23 December 2011 by Henry Gee

This will probably be my last post for 2011, and if it is, or even if it isn’t, I offer you both the compliments of the season.

I shall leave you with this picture taken earlier today at the pet stall in Norwich market, while Mrs Crox and I were engaged in last-minute festive shopping. I took it as it is probably the closest I have ever got t Continue reading →

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Support Student Volunteering Week 2012! [2]

Posted on 22 December 2011 by Henry Gee

Volunteering is a big part of the student experience. When I was an undergraduate at Leeds University in the early 1980s I was part of a project that read texts and coursework onto tape for blind students. After a short time I taught other readers how to read and use the machinery. It was enjoyable, I learned a lot, made new friends, and got into a Continue reading →

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Righting authorship wrongs [4]

Posted on 21 December 2011 by Frank Norman

I had never heard of Dalton Trumbo until today, and I daresay you haven’t heard of him either. He was a member of the “Hollywood Ten,” which was a group of writers and directors who were blacklisted after being deemed Communist sympathisers. Trumbo was sent to prison and later he moved to Mexico. He continued to write but had to Continue reading →

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An Identification Guide to Professors [4]

Posted on 21 December 2011 by Athene Donald

As we head for Christmas, it is worth considering the people we’ve been surrounded by for the past year.  Some will have been a delight, others may have caused immense stress for a number of different reasons. So, time to continue my characterisation of the Dramatis Personae in university departments, bearing in mind the recent discussion in the TH Continue reading →

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