Well, here I am in Palmerston North, in order to run a Scholarship Biology preparation day tomorrow (for want sounds like being a large crowd). The trip across the Desert Road was amazing: I simply wasn’t expecting to see so much snow 🙂 If it hadn’t been a tad damp – with little snow flurries […]
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a mammoth resurrection task
I spent Saturday down in Hawkes Bay, running at Scholarship Biology preparation day at Lindsfarne College. (I would have spent Sunday happily idling through the lovely Art Deco parts of Napier, & visiting a few vinyards, but the weather forecast made me reconsider this option & I ended up driving back to Hamilton once the […]
Continue readingwhat scientists can do to help teachers in the compulsory education system
A couple of days ago Grant sent me a link to a guest blog by biolgist & biology educator Joanne Manaster, on the Scientific American website . (There’s also an interesting commentary by George Musser.) Both resonated a lot with me & I thought I’d discuss why, here. (But first I am going to apologise in […]
Continue readingchemistry cat strikes again
Sorry, but it’s Sunday afternoon & I just couldn’t resist 🙂 (I really can’t see why PZ doesn’t like lolcats!)
Continue readingbiological oddities, including the naughty bits
Last night I gave a talk up in Auckland, on various biological oddities (mostly from the animal kingdom and, all right, mostly to do with s*x). You can slip a lot of serious science in once the audience’s attention has been captured by the naughty bits! (I would hate folks to think that biologists are […]
Continue reading(non)impact of placebo on the common cold
Over on SciBlogs(NZ), Elf has an interesting post about rhinoviruses, the causal agent for the common cold. I’ve just read it & thought it particularly apt in light of a recent paper on the impact of placebo treatments on the duration of cold symptoms (hat tip to the inimitable Mark Crislip). The Medscape review for […]
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