Richard P Grant
Scientist, poet, gadfly
Creator and sustainer of
Occam's Typewriteremail: rpgrant at gmail.com
twitter: @rpg7twit
home: rg-d.com-
Recent Posts
Recent Comments
- rpg on A Long December
- Henry on A Long December
- Our House | Confessions of a (former) Lab Rat on Three Little Birds
- rpg on We need medicine
- Henry on We need medicine
- rpg on Sweet home Alabama
- Henry Gee on Sweet home Alabama
- rpg on Sweet home Alabama
- Austin Elliott on Sweet home Alabama
- rpg on The Times They Are A-Changin’
Archives
Categories
- A momentary lapse of reason
- Art
- Birds
- Careers
- Don't try this at home
- ethics
- F1000
- Friday afternoon
- Funding
- Gardening
- Guest posts
- Homeopathy
- Ill-considered rants
- Internet
- Lab ratting
- Literature
- London
- Magirism
- Me
- meta
- Music
- Nature
- Nonsense
- Office life
- Offspring
- Penguins
- People
- Personal
- Photography
- Politics
- Public Engagement
- Rants
- Science
- Science is Vital
- Science-less Sunday
- Scio11
- Shooting
- Shopping lists
- Silliness
- Talks
- The stupid, it burns
- Uncategorized
- Video
- wank
- War stories
- wibbling
- Work
- you
Meta
Author Archives: rpg
Ethical conundrum
So it appears that nature.com has been nominated in the _”People’s Voice”:http://pv.webbyawards.com/ _ section of the annual Webby Awards , the ‘Oscars of the Internet’. The vote closes today, but I don’t at all recommend that we all register and … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
4 Comments
Coffee
Coffee gets cold. There is a world of philosophy in that simple statement.
Posted in Uncategorized
23 Comments
In memoriam
As I was preparing to move into my new study I came across something that, in another place , I said was in a box of old papers and memorabilia : Not a summer’s day then, but a bronze one; … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
2 Comments
Water, water, everywhere: and we’re all glowing in the park
When I am World President, people will not be stupid. Let me rephrase that: When I am World President, people will have ready access to all pertinent information. And do what I tell them into the bargain. Inhabitants of Australia’s … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
9 Comments
A bug, a bug, my kingdom for a bug fix.
It appears that if you create a web-log entry, save it, then come back to publish it, it doesn’t appear on the ‘Global Blogs’ list. Maddeningly, this seems to be because it’s published under the original ‘save’ date, not the … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
4 Comments
RIP Humph
I know that certain people in this network will be sad to hear that Humphrey Lyttelton has died . He’ll be sadly missed.
Posted in Uncategorized
39 Comments
Hear, hear
Just briefly, a post over at Lords of the Blog got me thinking. What do we say when we think a seminar speaker is mad, bad or dog, and don’t want to be rude?
Posted in Uncategorized
22 Comments
Reprints, what are they good for?
As we’ve been in the same house for over two years now, we decided that we should move things around a bit (Forces lifestyle, see. Get itchy feet after 18 months). We’ve swapped the girls’ bedrooms over, and now we’re … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
39 Comments

