The God of Small Things It’s very interesting to have been at the cutting edge. I’m glad I saw it. It’s also very sad to see the cutting edge go err blunt. Or go elsewhere, if a cutting edge is movable that is. Whatever, one morning I woke up and the cutting edge wasn’t there [...]
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‘Planet Dinosaur’ Joy! Continuity Announcer Misery! I think I probably lost interest in eating cereals about the same time they stopped putting plastic dinosaurs in the box. It was always the thought of another yellow stegosaurus, or perhaps a red diplodocus (not to scale), to add to my expanding dinosaur farm, that kept me munching through [...]
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It’s always nice to see things done well – in the lab and elsewhere I do like to see things done well. It gives me a feeling of great satisfaction. I think that it’s different to being a perfectionist. I have always thought that being a perfectionist seems a bit obsessive – I mean, the [...]
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Green Flourescent Protein: As scientists we all know just how fabulous science is and, generally, this does go along with an appreciation of the wonders of nature. I think I had a series of tea cards called the ‘Wonders of Nature’; there was definitely a set called Small Wonders – which hopefully has inspired a [...]
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“I was working in the lab late one night…” I’ve worked late in the lab many nights. It’s what happens when an experiment has to be completed. Part of the job, and at no time did I actually do the ‘Monster Mash’. I’ve never really had to pull an ‘all-nighter’ though. A lot of the [...]
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But what Rides are there at a Science Fair? I’ve always liked the sounds of Science Fairs. I mean, as a child, I always liked science and I’ve always liked fairs – so brill! The only thing that puzzled me is: what rides would there be at a Science Fair? There would have to be [...]
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Trust me I have a white coat! I’ve been thinking a lot about lab coats recently; too much to be honest. It was Emelia Fox that did it – or rather her TV alter-ego, forensic scientist, Dr Nikki Alexander from the BBC’s ‘Silent Witness’. If you haven’t seen this programme, I’m sure you know the [...]
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