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Here in Australia we’re (nearly) on the end of a long, damp piece of string, internet-wise. (The actual end is occupied by New Zealand, which is a terrible place and why anyone would want to live there is beyond me). … Continue reading →

You know those stereo images so belovéd of structural-type people? The ones you get in journals where you’re supposed to be able to squint somehow and see it in 3-D? I’ve never been able to pull off that trick. Never … Continue reading →

There is something deeply, deeply wrong with the advert that keeps appearing to the right of your erudite discourse: Please, in the name of all that’s holy, make it stop. Look, I’ll even buy something from Eppendorf if only they … Continue reading →

When does a piece of knowledge become so widespread, so known (self-evident?) that it no longer needs to be cited? I’m trying to find a reference for Le Chatelier’s Principle. Any clues?

I see that Dr Rohn has thrown down the gauntlet. Last year our faithful lab microwave (food use only, no nasty chemicals please) died, and Kate and myself were despatched to K-Mart to buy a new one. I carried it … Continue reading →

I was ready to launch into a diatribe about useless morons at webhosting companies, after sending the same damned email three times; but after the fourth I finally got through to a human being (snark, obviously, helps). Thank you for … Continue reading →

A couple of weeks ago I mentioned an exciting result from a freshly-minted PhD in our lab. I can’t really say much about it, still, but here is an artist’s impression of what got us so excitable (‘stricken’, maybe?). I … Continue reading →

When a PhD student goes out and buys a guitar from a pawn shop at lunchtime, comes back and starts playing the blues in the lab — someone, somewhere, is doing something wrong.

Ooh, shiny. Nature Methods have a special issue on Single Molecule Analysis. Strikingly, all articles in this issue are free (Yay! Free beer!) until the end of this month. Don’t FRET, there’s enough to go around. …tumbleweed…

It’s funny how everyone who has seen the Sharpie pens (and figured out how they work…) adores them. We scientists have simple tastes and are suckers for free pens. Thanks Corie 🙂