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Inspired by Stephen’s U2 fanboy post, and by a stellar gig last night, here are some witterings about my top five live music experiences. In no particular order:

Cell has a featured preview today of a paper titled “STIM1 Clusters and Activates CRAC Channels via Direct Binding of a Cytosolic Domain to Orai1”[1], with STIM1 standing for stromal interaction molecule 1. The title of the preview?

Short on time earlier today1, I popped over the road into my institute’s staff and patient canteen to buy something for a working lunch at my desk. In doing so, I noticed for the first time that the canteen staff … Continue reading →

Not least because they make for a quick’n’easy post in a very busy week. These two commercials are getting a lot of airtime on Canadian TV. The first one warms the heart: while the second one engages the brain: That … Continue reading →

Way back at the beginning of time my blogging adventure, I wrote a pair of linked posts that attracted over 3,000 views in a single day. While I’ve yet to repeat that level of interest, one of the two posts … Continue reading →

Dear Nature Publishing Group, When I worked in Marketing, I was responsible for placing a rather expensive advertising campaign within your august pages. As a result I developed a good working relationship with one of your advertising reps, who was … Continue reading →

Nature Network is a strange and wonderful corner of the internet. People who are arguing with you on one thread are simultaneously helping you set up your new computer on another. iLove it. Having benefited greatly in the last few … Continue reading →

After a lengthy period of faffing about on the internet intensive study, I have invented devised a statistical thingy what the hell is it called matrix to help my fellow NN bloggers predict the kind of comments they are likely … Continue reading →

I am was an evolutionary biologist, after all. Many happy returns, Chuckie D! I wish that you only could see The advances we’ve made With genomics and spade, And the state of our family tree. Darwin’s original phylogenetic tree: The … Continue reading →

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