Category Archives: silliness

A Pretty Fly (for a White Guy)

Posted on October 31, 2007 by Cath@VWXYNot?

Happy Hallowe’en! You might think I have a thing for flies, given the subject of a couple of recent posts. Well, you might be right. Here’s me at last year’s Hallowe’en party. Two sieves, some hair elastics, a single black … Continue reading →

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Friday’s Piggy Primate Party

Posted on October 25, 2007 by Cath@VWXYNot?

Various blogs have picked up on the story about a man being killed by monkeys in India. (Hey guys, primates in the news are my thing. Mine.) So I’m going to tell a different Indian monkey story instead. newindpress.com reports … Continue reading →

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Friday’s Primate Party

Posted on October 5, 2007 by Cath@VWXYNot?

What is it about monkeys and flying? Here’s a story from the Times of India: “That India’s airports desperately needs modernisation became evident when a monkey caused operations to be stalled for a few hours at New Delhi’s Indira Gandhi … Continue reading →

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Friday’s Primate Party

Posted on September 28, 2007 by Cath@VWXYNot?

I had my wallet stolen by a Madrid pickpocket on my recent honeymoon. I once almost lost a kayak dry-box containing wallets, phones and keys to a group of thieving raccoons who were attempting to drag it into the bushes. … Continue reading →

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Lab Hobbits

Posted on September 27, 2007 by Cath@VWXYNot?

A recent post at Genomicron prompted me to go Googling for an excellent email I received while I was doing my postdoc. Unusually for chain emails, it comes with an explanation by the author of how it came about. Here’s … Continue reading →

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Teach Yourself Dodgy British Portuguese

Posted on September 25, 2007 by Cath@VWXYNot?

I’m back! Did I miss anything?Taking a month off work is excellent, I can highly recommend it. However, as my science brain is stubbornly still on holiday, it may be a few days before I get around to any science-related … Continue reading →

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Friday’s Primate Party

Posted on August 17, 2007 by Cath@VWXYNot?

In honour of yesterday’s journal club, here’s a chimpanzee apparently using his brain. Maybe he’s pondering whether his brain transcripts are displaying inter-species or intra-species differences to those of the guy with the camera.

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Friday’s Primate Party

Posted on August 10, 2007 by Cath@VWXYNot?

I think I’ll continue my week-old tradition of posting about primates on Fridays. This week’s cheeky chappy was a stowaway on a flight from Florida to New York. He escaped notice on his flight from Peru to Florida and during … Continue reading →

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Bits and Bobs…

Posted on August 4, 2007 by Cath@VWXYNot?

…a suitably lazy Friday post. 1) ERV and Colbert take down Michael Behe. Our chief weapon is reason, reason and mockery.Our two chief weapons are reason, mockery, and empirical evidence.Amongst our weaponry are such things as… 2) Another reason why … Continue reading →

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…and I’m back.

Posted on July 26, 2007 by Cath@VWXYNot?

Did I miss anything important? This is awesome by the way. I think I like #10 the best. #7 is just disturbing. I would probably choose either a luxury yacht or a piece of really good cheese. I will write … Continue reading →

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