The Telegraph has a story on the possibility of cloning Neanderthals, with the fetching headline: ‘I can create Neanderthal baby, I just need willing woman.’ (You can read the NZ version on Stuff.) My first thought was ‘eeewww’. (And, as a friend commented, it’s stories like this that get science a bad name.) Once past that […]
Continue readingI first heard about faecal transplants while listening to one of Mark Crislip’s podcasts (based on one of his posts at Science-Based Medicine. I always find his work informative & entertaining, though his sarcasm may not be to everyone’s taste). With the title ‘The species in the faeces’ I knew I was going to hear […]
Continue readingI am a sucker for lovely photos of the unexpected. And here’s a real beauty: water droplets caught in the splash 🙂 Macro-photography images of water in motion, photography by Heinz Maier.Via Analytical Chemistry Techniques.
Continue readingOver lunch, I was catching up with my reading on various blogs and found – via PZ on Pharyngula – this little gem on evolution. The others on offer at the Stated Clearly site look good too; it would be nice to see the authors attract the crowd-sourcing they need to make more of the videos […]
Continue readingI’m starting to think about this year’s teaching: what I’m planning, what worked last year & what didn’t, things that need to be revised. One thing I’ll be doing a bit more of is ‘flip teaching’, something that worked well last semester in helping students learn about & gain an understanding of recombinant DNA technologies. […]
Continue readingI found the Herald’s front page this morning a sad and depressing read. My heart goes out to all those affected in some way by the terrible bush fires ravaging so much of Tasmania, Victoria, & New South Wales. I also had a certain sense of deja vu as I read of the fires – […]
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