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Swine and cosmetics

September 11, 2008by Lee Turnpenny Leave a comment

(… Three Different Ones) Let’s hear it for the FA big(in need of)wigs who, in negotiating a bigger deal with a particular sports broadcasting company for exclusive live coverage of […]

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Anything spherical is a delicacy

September 7, 2008by Lee Turnpenny Leave a comment

Part of the building conversion work here a couple of years back resulted in the placing of a unisex convenience at the top of the stairs leading to the corridor […]

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Heather Etchevers’s PCR tips

September 5, 2008by Lee Turnpenny 8 Comments

On behalf of the People’s Front of the Laboratory (or is that the Laboratory People’s Front?), I reproduce here the lovely response I had recently to a PCR whinge of […]

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Be afraid…

September 4, 2008by Lee Turnpenny 5 Comments

If you think what goes on politically and religiously and scientific-educationally in the USA has no bearing anywhere else, then I’d like a hit of whatever it is you’re taking. […]

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… ‘cos I’m not really a curmudgeon

September 2, 2008by Lee Turnpenny 8 Comments

It piles up again: passaging cultures and workload is suddenly multiplied, particularly when the last remaining Lab Manager / Technician is about to go on holiday; and the PCRs are […]

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Tenses’

August 29, 2008by Lee Turnpenny Leave a comment

Today is a significant day. I made a decision a while back to remain in Scumsville based on many reasons – including an element of unreason. But after living a […]

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Further musings on the things science can’t explain: Part 2 (perhaps)

August 25, 2008by Lee Turnpenny 1 Comment

Last week, I got off my fat one, ferried it elsewhere, and sat back on it in my favourite cinema seat, and, with a (plastic) ‘glass’ of Rioja and sharing […]

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Tardyon

August 19, 2008by Lee Turnpenny 8 Comments

I’ve been watching too much TV lately: the lazy consequence of my tardy conversion from five channel analogue philistinism to willpower-sapping digital Freeview, which, despite the relative proportion of dross […]

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