Science goes out of the window when there is energy in the room I never meant to eavesdrop. But sometimes with a mobile phone you just can’t help it. I would have forgotten the conversation completely except the man had to go and say, when discussing his previous night’s meeting, that there had been: ‘a [...]
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But which end do you open it? Irrational conflicts over hard to credit beliefs: no not the current faux-heated ‘AV versus the first-past-the-post’ voting debate currently (not) gripping the UK. Nor the more worrying return of sectarianism to Northern Ireland and Scottish football. It being Easter, I’m thinking eggs. Not the Egg War that engulfed [...]
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Meanwhile back on the campus… Professor Immer Scorpion, Vice Chancellor of Scorpiones University, adjusted his particularly fine stinger and sat behind his large, beautifully polished, desk with a contented sigh. He had just delivered his welcome lecture to this year’s intake of eager students – a task he always enjoyed. As ever, his theme had [...]
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I is only taking the Pisa A friend of mine has just been to Italy, which is nice. He is reasonably fluent in the language, well he should be, after all he spent three years at college studying it. Not just Italian, of course – I mean that would be silly, who could spend three [...]
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Making it up on the spot: I have just been to see a great musical. It was called ‘Wai Aye Mine’ and told the story of the torrid love affair between PM Margaret Thatcher and miner’s leader Arthur Scargil set against the worsening economic climate of the 1980s. It had great songs, reminiscent of the [...]
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“Around 200 exhibitors lined up their wares for the main Medtec 2011 event at the NEC in Birmingham last week. The show was an amalgamation of three other complimentory events in the shape of mtec, 3C and midlands design and manufacturing. The main objective here was to attract visitors who were looking for a wide [...]
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Putting all your eggs in one basket And all the science I don’t understand, it’s just my job five days a week… Science for me was always a vocation – after I realised that I might be able to write in my spare time, but never would discover the cause of myasthenia gravis on [...]
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