Science and canonisation
So, they still confer sainthoods? In the twenty-first century? I mean, I thought that was a thing of the past! Surely the Catholic Church has moved on enough to dispense […]
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Anthropomorphising Ayu
I’ve just spent a few days looking after a couple of friends’ dog during their trip abroad for a family celebration. This arrangement was borne of my querying the desirability […]
‘Greatest’..?
I am wont, over a drink with either fellow aficionados or indulgent people possessed of too much politeness to tell me to shut up, to bore on about (the music […]
Science Communication surveys
SciLog-ers might be interested in helping out a couple of Science Communication M.Sc. Students. If you’ve ever been in the situation of needing to recruit respondents for survey questionnaires, you’ll […]
Worth the effort…?
There is (fair) argument sometimes made that the huge amount of public money expended on often unnecessary and/or ineffective and/or downright dangerous ‘Big Pharma’ products renders objection to that frittered […]
‘Is ‘cloning’ mad, bad and dangerous?’ – an argument revisited
Six years ago, to mark the then tenth anniversary of the announcement of the birth of the folkloric Dolly the sheep, and in the still reverberating wake of the South […]
Grammar and gender
This is the letter that landed 100 academics the inaugural Idler Academy Bad Grammar award. Well, we might pedantically recoil at a missing comma and a misplaced apostrophe in the […]
Grammar and gender
This is the letter that landed 100 academics the inaugural Idler Academy Bad Grammar award. Well, we might pedantically recoil at a missing comma and a misplaced apostrophe in the […]
Lee Turnpenny 