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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chemistry 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!)
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It is Friday & I still have the lingering effects of the flu 🙁 I hate being sick; the brain doesn’t work properly, for one thing. So thinking of something sensible to write is actually rather difficulty 🙁 But wait, is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it’s Chemistry Cat, from a distant place […]
Continue readingthe taipei IBO – what we did when not in the jury room
It wasn’t all work & no play at the International Biology Olympiad in Taipei (27-hour stints in the jury room notwithstanding!). Our hosts took great care to show us some of the sights & tastes of Taipei, taking jury members on several excursions while the students were sitting their exams.
Continue readinginternational biology olympiad: nz team brings home the medals :-)
As many of you will know, I’ve been to the 22nd International Biology Olympiad in Taipei, as an observer with the New Zealand team. This was New Zealand’s most successful Olympiad to date, as described by the Chair of the NZ IBO committee, Dr Angela Sharples: The New Zealand team of Benjamin Bai, Richard Chou, […]
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On Saturday I’m winging off to Taipei as an ‘observer’ attached to New Zealand’s International Biology Olympiad team. The idea is that I find out as much as I can about how the event is run, before coming back & getting our own coordinating group into gear for the 2014 event. (I am ever so […]
Continue readingwonderful wordle: if my dishwasher had wings
As a bit of light relief from my current admin, I wandered over to Wordle to see how my blog ‘visualises’ itself at the moment. From which I gather that a hot dishwasher is beneficial, & evolution may one day fit it with wings… Wordle. I like it 🙂
Continue readingto the ridiculous (answersingenesis)…
The internet is a strange place – not least because it makes easier to stumble across such strange juxtapositions as PZ’s sublime posting on killling and a strange and ridiculous piece by AIG (Answers in Genesis) that lays the blame for the Noachian flood on earthquakes (& I have to thank Ted for pointing me at the […]
Continue readingscience education for the 21st century – an update
For those keen on attending (via the KAREN network or another provider) next week’s launch of Looking ahead: science education for the 21st century, here are the latest details on where & how to join the ‘virtual’ audience: Teachers can participate in the seminar in three ways. 1. Via Satellite Television, combined with the livechat which requires […]
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A few days ago my fellow Scibloggers & I had a bit of a discussion around blood donations (as part of a wider discussion of issues relating to the disastrous earthquake in CHristchurch on Tuesday 22 February). While at present the Blood Service isn’t calling for extra donors, I thought I’d write another post on donation […]
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