From xkcd – & thanks to Orac where I saw it first. I wouldn’t mind a hovercar…guess I’m not in the right area 🙂
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may your christmas be filled…
… with good things: wonderful company pleasant surprises and good food but perhaps not too much of that last one – you don’t want to end up like Winston:
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Well, we’re back in the country but I’m still slightly in holiday mode. So I thought I’d share some of the photos we took while visiting various places near Port Douglas (in northern Queensland) – I’ll write some ‘serious’ stuff about things we saw over the next few days.
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Today the husband & I are winging our way to warmer climes 🙂 The dog’s in the kennels, the grown-up kids are minding the house, & all’s right with the world. In fact, by the time you read this, we may actually be lounging by a pool, book in one hand (in my case, at […]
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No, this has nothing whatsoever to do with biology… well, that’s not quite true – there’s an exploding whale included 🙂 I remember that one year, early in my secondary schooling (yes, a loooong time ago!), there was a rumour that some young man at Hastings Boys High had disposed of some illicitly-acquired sodium by […]
Continue readingturning kids on to science: the spectrum revisited
The following quote comes from an article about science clubs in the UK, aimed at 12 & 13-year olds & intended to stimulate interest in science: "The ultimate aim is to enthuse young people about learning again…We want the clubs to help kids to see that science isn’t just about crazy, white-haired men in labs […]
Continue readingswim with the sharks…
… says the blackboard outside the National Aquarium of New Zealand, over in Napier, Hawkes Bay. It also offers tuatara, kiwi, a cafe… Good for an hour or so of investigation, I thought – I was on my way back to Hamilton from a Schol Bio day in Hastings, & wasn’t in any particular hurry. […]
Continue readingtomorrow’s young scientists, today
In the last few days I’ve been lucky enough to spend some time with the latest crop of up-&-coming young scientists 🙂 Yesterday I spent the day doing a Scholarship Biology preparation day for students in Hawkes Bay(very kindly hosted by Lindsfarne College in Hastings). I always get a real buzz out of working with […]
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… but there may be a brief interruption to regular programming for the next few days. I’m off to Wellington for a meeting & may not have a lot of time for blogging, although I’ll try to pull something together in the evenings. If the opportunity doesn’t arise (& remember – there are a lot […]
Continue readinga special kind of donation
As I left the office this afternoon I said to my colleagues, ‘I’ll be in a bit later tomorrow, I have an interview with a vampire.’ At which they all laughed, because they know this means I’m off to my regular appointment at the NZ Blood Service centre, over by the hospital.
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