Author Archives: rpg

bq. My friend Jenny and I are moving in perfect reciprocity at the moment, so we thought it would be entertaining to plot our opposing curves simultaneously. I am leaving science for a career in publishing, funnily enough at the … Continue reading →

I see that Henry is giving Stephen lessons in poetry. I’ve never claimed to be anything but an amateur, although a kind correspondent did give me a copy of Fry’s The Ode Less Travelled a couple of weeks ago. Rather … Continue reading →

That is all.

The tyranny of biology Leads to asinine hagiography: Gallileo brighter; Einstein quicker; Copernicus smarter; Newton slicker. Bright stars all, their ideas distinguished; Blazing lights not to be extinguished. None could deny that Darwin’s gift Rightly is termed a paradigm shift … Continue reading →

We’ve had some storms in Sydney. Rain storms, that is: the fire storms are a thousand miles thataway, in a different state (having said that, I stood outside last Friday night and could smell a bushfire somewhere to the west. … Continue reading →

There’s a right way, and a wrong way. We’re a big lab. Currently about 20 active (quiet, Rohn) members in the group including grad students. And there’s a new kid on the supplier block. They are SDR Clinical Technology, based … Continue reading →

About a year ago I came up with a cunning plan for a game for the two Pawns, and part of that plan was creating a secret web page and making a link to it from a different, google-indexed web … Continue reading →

Kate runs the lab in which I’m a senior post-doc. Over the last three years she’s managed to work herself into a role where, basically, she runs the place. Me, I just tinker with things of which man was not … Continue reading →

I made the comment in the lab just now that Australia is the only place I’ve worked in where it’s not unusual to get through three bucket loads of ice in a day. Other pointers that we’re not in Kansas … Continue reading →