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there be snakes & ladders

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 Wittily
the first step

April 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 Wittily
day one of holiday: spent mostly in soho

February 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
‘if you finish second, then you’re the first loser’

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
fancy pants, warp-drive, bung-eye and spartapuss

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
monday me #6

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
sawyer and the space-time paradox

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
the pale blue dot (or, perspective: i haz it)

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
notes on happiness

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
friday five: the big bang machine

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
verily, the geeks shall inherit the earth

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
friday five: god’s fireworks* are awesome

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 [...]

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| 6 Bantering Wittily
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