In case you’re not aware, Alom Shaha’s film for his Why is Science Important? project (as flagged up to NN-ers by Jennifer Rohn here) has now been launched and can […]

I recall a previous incarnation, wherein I used to frequent a peninsular pub that served good stout. Of the other regulars was this fella who was clearly trying to live […]

Fail! No, more than that; I mean, as per the terms of my contract, to produce output, in my obligation to my institution; to other people, because I work for […]

It’s ‘Appraisal’ time! The annual (so I’m told) admin event, wherein we get sent a form to fill in and forward to our ‘Line Manager’ as discussion subject matter for […]

It is sometimes said you should never meet your heroes, because you will always be disappointed. But I’m pretty certain I would have liked Charles Darwin. From what I’ve read […]

I like afternoons like this: outside it’s cold and damp, but I’m now warm and dry, having been into work, filling the gaps in some ‘n’ numbers, then for a […]

I got wind yesterday, via one or two news items, of the Theos report, ‘Rescuing Darwin’, and was considering blogging in response to a summary by one of its authors, […]

Last weekend, I took myself to see Frost/Nixon, the dramatisation of David Frost’s 1977 interviewing of Richard Nixon, who, three years previous, had resigned the US presidency in disgrace following […]