Somewhere in a Galaxy far, far away… If you can imagine a world without excessive Health and Safety restrictions, where people regulated themselves because they were adults and experts and the best people to assess the risks when carrying out , say, scientific research, then you might begin to appreciate the joys of the Christmas [...]
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Look Out BBC! Dr Tel is Watching You! Looking forward to Michael Mosley’s ‘MIND’; the new series, ‘three immersive journeys to try to understand science’s last great frontier – the human mind’? I’m not. Or how about an ‘in-depth look at how Britain became a nation of eco-warriors and conservationists?’ Sound good to you? Not to [...]
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Dr Tel checks his geek credentials and finds them wanting. OK, it’s confession time. I am not now and have never been, in any manner, shape or form, a geek. Not a geek, or a nerd, or a weed, or a drip or anything related. There I’ve said it! Has a weight been lifted from my [...]
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With Christmas party season upon us, bloghazard dreads that particular question. Comedy writers do actually get asked to say something funny while at parties (not actually to write something funny, but say something funny – which isn’t that fair; I mean a racquet manufacturer isn’t expected to win Wimbledon!). Or at least I do; get [...]
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Owl and Pussy Cat – all at sea on the ACMD Further controversy over government plans to remove the legal requirement for scientists to be on the Advisory Council for the Misuse of Drugs with the release of news that ‘The Owl and the Pussycat’ are to be invited onto the panel. The original proposal, [...]
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It’s life Jim, but not as we know it! Are you still buzzing from the most exciting science news headline to hit the prime time media reports since the Titan landing? Thrilled at the prospect of arsenic-based bacteria? Excited by the possibilities of extraterrestrial life? Still not got around to reading the full paper though? [...]
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Shaken but not stirred “The time has come,” the Walrus said, “To talk of many things: Of shoes–and ships–and sealing-wax– Of cabbages– and wasp testicles.” Yes, you knew it would be on the agenda somewhere, didn’t you? And not just any wasp testicles but parasitic wasp testicles! By which I mean the testicles of parasitic [...]
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