I’m seemingly being haunted by this damn magpie. On Tuesday morning, I diverged from my usual route into work… and saw something that simultaneously both disturbed, and made things abundantly […]

Last week, a colleague of mine – a highly competent, intelligent scientist – stated, during a food conversation, “If you keep eating salad, you’ll turn into a rabbit”. I find […]

Three cheers for the HFEA, which has given the go-ahead for two UK research groups to produce human-animal hybrid cells (or ‘human admixed embryos’) for medical research. ‘Frankenstein’ makes predictable […]

Words matter; and we should take pedantic exception to their misuse – a common media trait. For example, I read a couple of years ago of the rare catch of […]

Perhaps it is little surprise that Tony Blair has converted to Catholicism. Apparently, as part of the conversion process, before receiving full communion, he would have had to confess all […]

Why, after midnight, does Channel 4 feel the need to inform me that the following program includes ‘very strong language’? What constitutes language that might offend me may differ entirely […]

As an unstipulated hours, short-term contract post-doc, one of the things that can be worked to ones advantage is flexi-time. As I’m likely still at work in to the evening, […]

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