Author Archives: rpg

About rpg

Scientist, poet, gadfly

Joshua fit the battle of Jericho

Posted on 2 October 2013 by rpg

I am typing this slowly, with one hand. I do of course already have two lovely daughters, but welcoming Joshua—their half-brother—into the world wasn’t any less special. And the original Pawn, Rachel, seems equally thrilled.

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Road Rage

Posted on 14 August 2013 by rpg

One of things that annoy me—let me be honest, and say that along with pigeons, cycle helmets and Henry Gee, one of the many things that annoy me—is the inability of apparently otherwise intelligent folk to use a computer. But … Continue reading →

Posted in Ill-considered rants, Internet | Tagged , , | 6 Comments

On leakage

Posted on 19 June 2013 by rpg

Apparently there’s a word for it. I did it once, when I went to work at a small (and doomed) startup company in Cambridge, back in the tail end of 1997. I did it again four and a bit years … Continue reading →

Posted in Careers, Science is Vital, The stupid, it burns, Work | Tagged , , , | 27 Comments

Keep on running

Posted on 21 April 2013 by rpg

What’s that bright light in the sky? We need Winter, because without it we would not appreciate Spring so much. Even so, Spring has been a long time coming to London. We had, apparently, the coldest Easter on record. But … Continue reading →

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Broken Teeth

Posted on 7 April 2013 by rpg

M’good friend Dr Gee apparently has a thing about bones. Anything he can do, I can do better, so, in the absence of any biological modelling this week, here’s one for you paleontologists: To me, it looks like a fossilized … Continue reading →

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Parklife

Posted on 28 March 2013 by rpg

If you’ve ever seen my Flickr stream you might realize I’m quite fond of birds. Even here in Zone 2 there are a lot of birds around—especially in our garden. Blue tits, great tits, long-tailed tits, robins, dunnocks, goldfinches, wrens, … Continue reading →

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On biological modelling

Posted on 24 March 2013 by rpg

Complement activation

Posted in London, Nonsense, Science-less Sunday, Silliness | Tagged , , , | 3 Comments

On biological modelling

Posted on 17 March 2013 by rpg

#5 Thylakoid

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On Biological Modelling

Posted on 10 March 2013 by rpg

#4 Nuclear Pore (internal) (oily spaghetti model)

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On biological modelling

Posted on 24 February 2013 by rpg

claimtoken-5139f785eddbf #3 Lipid raft

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