Author Archives: rpg

We should do themed weeks here at NN. This picture has been sitting on my desktop for three weeks; I was about to upload it when Jenny got all excited about Alok’s stub, so I thought I’d hang fire for … Continue reading →

Cath is frustrated with variant spellings. This, actually, is something I come across a lot in Australia, where they seem to want to follow the Francophone world (beats me why). Let me explain. In English (‘English’. Not ‘British’ English or … Continue reading →

As I was getting all the pieces of paperwork together for my up-coming trip to Blighty, I (re-)discovered a well-thumbed Tube map in my briefcase. And it occurred to me that given the nature (har har) of certain members of … Continue reading →

My cloning worked. So when I saw on promotional materials from a certain company I’ve done business with, I was a bit perplexed. Immediately underneath was What’s the message here? They’re supplying reagents for cloning the spawn of the devil … Continue reading →

If I wasn’t about to dash off and give my group talk, I’d have time to do this properly. So I’m going to solicit m’learned colleagues’ opinion. I was reading a Table of Contents from a particular journal this morning … Continue reading →

Or, Get ORFFF mah LAHND! In my role as Emissary Extraordinaire to the Colonies, I often find myself defending the Monarchy to the more republican shackle-draggers I encounter. It does, I claim (in the context of a Constitutional Monarchy), counter … Continue reading →

bq. Question: Picasso pioneered what short-lived but influential form of art? Answer: Copper, Bismuth, Samarium So the biologists among us must all have played the “What words can you find in the human|rat|frog|wombat genome?” game. Some of us might even … Continue reading →

The truly excellent XPlasMap is asymptotically approaching 1.0! Ian is soliciting beta testers. Tell him I sent you. New features include: Annotation, with text, arrows, circles, etc. Convert groups of enzymes to multiple cloning sites, and vice-versa Auto-positioning of enzymes … Continue reading →

It must be summer. First Jenny, and now me. (http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/454804a, if the DOI has woken up yet…)