This is shameless, shameless self-promotion but I was interviewed back in May by Carl Carruthers for his Meet a Scientist Monday podcast, which has gone live today.
The interview was long enough ago for me — being of advanced years — to have forgotten what I’d said, so I’ve just had a listen. We had a nice, meandering conversation. Carl Continue reading
At least, I assume there used to be something worth translating in this box… given that I found it near the elevators on the top floor of a hospital, hopefully it wasn’t anything about dodgy elevators or level 4 containment…
Observed, confundingly, outside Cromer Hospital, earlier today
You’ll both be familiar now with the build that’s been going on at the Maison des Girrafes for some time now. We’ve now entered that long asymptote known as ‘finishing touches’.
Oh yes, the kitchen still hasn’t got a proper floor. Mrs Crox and I spent a happy exhausting afternoon clearing out the entire room, whi Continue reading
This is by way of a public service announcement for those who are ‘friends’ of mine on Facebook, or think they are but aren’t, or who would like to be, or for people who think they are ‘friends’ of mine but aren’t, because I have ‘unfriended’ them in the cause of the housekeeping I am about to describ Continue reading
This week I attended the Elizabeth Johnson lecture at the Institute of Physics, given by Mary Curnock Cook, chief executive of UCAS. Her topic was Gender Maps in Higher Education, and it explored the differences between male and female progression through the various key stages at school and subsequent admission to university. There were a lot of Continue reading
Being the Jewish New year (5772 since the world was created, of course), although I am totally secular, I find myself taking a couple days off my “Denisovich” lifestyle to visit with family. It seems that one of the main wishes for new year, be it Jewish, Christian or other religions–at least those with which I have some vague fam Continue reading
Athene’s recent post about how students write their PhD theses (plus frequent keyword search hits to my blog on the same subject) served as a long-overdue reminder that I’d promised to share my own thesis writing experiences. Some of the comments on the preamble post I wrote in (let’s see… February? Really? Oops…) led Continue reading
A year ago they were rarer than a very rare thing. There were more of them six months ago, but now they are everywhere – rare is the commute in which I don’t see at least one, and, notwithstanding inasmuch as which, more.
I write, of course, of e-book readers, not just the splendid iPad whose praises you have oft heard me sing, but the Continue reading
Just dropped in for a byte…
