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I wonder if my tunes are easier to identify than my books? Here are the first few lines of 20 songs that came up on Shuffle on my iPod. I cheated a wee bit by skipping any album tracks, duplicated … Continue reading →

Tagged by Bob. Listed below are the 5th complete sentences from the 56th pages of 10 different books… with 5 hints. Edited to add: I’ve now included the authors’ first names, and an indication of fiction (F) or non-fiction (NF). … Continue reading →

My neural circuits just will not engage today. In fact it feels like my brain might have gone on an early Christmas holiday, and asked a big lump of modelling clay to fill in for it. But a colleague just … Continue reading →

Brian’s recent post touching on the “watchmaker” argument used by intelligent design proponents reminded me of this extremely elegant experiment, in video form. The video is about 10 minutes long and should be fairly self-explanatory for anyone with any training … Continue reading →

Ever wondered what’s lurking in your garden? A friend of mine has a budding1 professional interest. She’s a volunteer in Vancouver’s Stanley Park, and as part of her role has come across an activity known as nature mapping2. As far … Continue reading →

Following Stephen’s excellent post about writing a “lay abstract” as a short story, I shall make a second attempt at blogging the day’s events in limerick form.

Today is Remembrance Day. It is now 90 years since the end of World War I, and there are barely any veterans left who served in the trenches. It is almost 60 years since the beginning of World War II. … Continue reading →

Following on from Eva’s thesis haikus, here’s a limerick I scribbled down during a coffee break on the second morning of a two day workshop that I attended last week:

I’ve just got out of a meeting at which I learned the hourly operating cost of this research building. I’m not gonna tell you what it is, just that my jaw almost hit the floor. This new knowledge has inspired … Continue reading →

I usually post my book reviews over at my other blog, but given some of Jenny Rohn’s recent posts about integrating real science into a fiction setting, it seemed appropriate to cross-post here. Jenny has some excellent advice that I … Continue reading →