Viewing category: proper science

April 28, 2012
there be snakes & ladders...
Working in an academic environment has much to recommend it. My deep enthusiasm for proper science, without the backing of any actual knowledge or education in any field remotely related [...]
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| 7 Bantering WittilyApril 12, 2012
the first step...
Last night we lay in the warm dark, giggly and wide-awake and overrun with cats. I asked for a bedtime story, and Ash took me on [...]
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| 21 Bantering WittilyFebruary 27, 2012
day one of holiday: spent mostly in soho...
I have a week off! My first in over eight months and I plan to rock its bloody face off. This morning I spent a couple [...]
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| 11 Bantering Wittily
February 20, 2011
‘if you finish second, then you’re t...
Image credit: LusoFox All the nerdy science types will tell you that they are formations of cemented mudstone, shaped by coastal erosion. ‘Obviously’ this is bollocks [...]
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| 5 Bantering Wittily
November 18, 2010
fancy pants, warp-drive, bung-eye and spartapuss...
We had our End-Of-Project-Party on Monday night. Several hundred people in posh frocks and suits piled into Madame Tussuad’s for an evening of waxing lyrical (heh) [...]
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| 4 Bantering Wittily
June 29, 2010
monday me #6...
Long-time readers may recall my week in Spain on the Big Stretch. It was a gift to myself: a week of walking and swimming and hiking, [...]
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| 3 Bantering Wittily
June 2, 2010
sawyer and the space-time paradox...
(This post mentions Lost, but there are no spoilers. Promise). I am currently in mourning. For six years I watched every single Lost episode, (even when [...]
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| 3 Bantering Wittily
May 19, 2010
the pale blue dot (or, perspective: i haz it)...
‘We succeeded in taking that picture from deep space, and, if you look at it, you see a dot. That’s here. That’s home. That’s us. On [...]
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| 7 Bantering Wittily
March 2, 2010
notes on happiness...
One: Founder of behavioral economics and Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman spoke at TED on myths about happiness: ‘We don’t choose between experiences, we choose between memories [...]
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| 10 Bantering Wittily
February 18, 2010
friday five: the big bang machine...
January’s Vanity Fair contained a gobsmacking article about the Large Hadron Collider. How awesome that this most amazingest feat of human endeavour, is happening in our [...]
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| 8 Bantering Wittily
December 22, 2009
verily, the geeks shall inherit the earth...
Isn’t it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too? ~ Douglas [...]
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| 3 Bantering Wittily
November 5, 2009
friday five: god’s fireworks* are awesome...
*A nebula is a cloud of gas and dust in space. Some nebulas are regions where new stars are being formed, while others are the remains [...]
















