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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 🙂

Over at the Lablit fora there is a discussion on the language of creativity. The conversation, um, evolved somewhat and got to talking about online vs down the pub conversation. Someone said I just feel that an online discussion is … Continue reading →

Content theft and copyright breach in progress. http://newjobq.com/ is stealing my posts and publishing them without attribution. Is there actually anything we can do about this?

You’d have to be living in a hole in the ground (ha ha…) not to notice the rocketing price of oil ($135 and climbing). Having just spent a single digit but seemingly unreasonable number of thousands of Australian dollars (US$:Au$ … Continue reading →

Now, I know that I didn’t go into this so-called career because of the money, but some days I really feel undervalued. The average salary for a radiologist – a specialist who does the reporting and interpreting of an x-ray, … Continue reading →