Even the darkest tunnels tend to have lights at the end of them. In the past fortnight, not only have I submitted my big screen paper – the culmination of four years of work – to a very reputable cell biology journal, but said journal has actually decided to send the manuscript out for review.
I have mixed feelings about having passed muster: if i Continue reading
Are YOU a science geek? Have you ever wondered what impact this might on your family?
It’s another scene of revenge from the “Children of Science Geeks”! Beware! Continue reading
Let’s start with an overview of the whole season’s results, NOT INCLUDING the final week’s:
Weeks 1 - 27
Lavaland led the pool from week 13 onwards, but could she fend off a strong challenge from Ricardipus? And did anything interesting happen in the rest of the rankings in this final week?
Continue readingThings aren’t going entirely to plan. An irritating niggle is threatening my grand erection with flaccidity, but it’ll be sorted out – eventually. Mrs Crox locked herself out of her office, which occasioned some drama. And when I opened the fridge, a plate carrying a piece of cake fell out, carrying with it an egg. Egg and plate s Continue reading
What the hell is Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey about? I’m sure I don’t know.
I’m really, really sure I don’t know. At least, I think I am. Continue reading
Way back when I was an Occam’s Typewriter Irregular—that is to say, before Henry supplied me with his magic evolution-enhanced pellets—I wrote a blog about critical thinking and children.
Now as a Regular—thanks to the Gee pellets—I would like to add to the idea of critical thinking from a different angle. It’s science-related, but because science Continue reading
Just a quick follow-up to my recent post about Wikipedia. Wikipedia has been in the news recently, with the BBC highlighting Cancer Research UK’s Wikipedia activity and the Guardian editorialising on the survey that the Wikimedia Foundation is running.
The BBC website story points out that if you put ‘Breast Cancer’ into a search Continue reading
My friends know that Erasmus Darwin is one of my heroes. Much less well known than his grandson Charles, and whose work is of course far more ephemeral, nevertheless he is a true Renaissance Man – or more strictly an Enlightenment Man. When a couple of years ago I was invited to appear on Radio 4’s A Good Read, the biography of him by Desmond King Continue reading
I had a conversation on twitter last night with m’learned friend Nige, who runs the most ethical small business I know of.
He pointed me at this blog post by Richard Smith at the BMJ, What is post publication peer review?.
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