The irreverent science writings of Matthew Partridge (MCeeP)
It’s been really busy since we last did a roundup post! We had a stall at Norwich Science Festival (see our post here) where loads of people came to draw cartoons with us! Were you one of them? Let us know! Matthew wrote a great post about optimisation in science Read more…
In movies science is mostly about what is known as the eureka moment. A moment where you have an amazing idea, stare off into the middle distance and say something like “but of course – the cheese!” And then jump cut to an amazing cheese-based new form of physics solving Read more…
This week we wrote an article (#AD) for the nice people over at Mr Lee’s noodles. You should go read it, it’s about noodles!!
It’s been a busy few weeks here at ErrantScience! We’ve been publishing our regular blog posts and cartoons, preparing for the upcoming Norwich Science Festival (come see us on Saturday 26 October!), and some other pretty exciting stuff in the pipeline…! More to be revealed soon. A note about our Read more…
When I first started as a researcher I had a Sony Ericsson flip phone. The flip part was a piece of plastic that served no function other than to look cool when I answered the phone and cover the buttons in my pocket. It could take photos but these photos Read more…
This article has exactly 516 words. I could have easily made it a nice round 515 but I purposely left one word out just make it an odd number. My reason for this is firstly to slightly bother those with a phobia of typos and mistakes in text but also Read more…
Over the last few weeks our weekly blog posts have covered all sorts of things, from lunch (very important) to software for thesis-writing. We also asked if anyone would like to write a guest post – please do get in touch if you’re interested!
As I write this I have on my desk next to me, my lunch. Today it consists of a bagel filled with some left over BBQ chicken, a small Tupperware box with a piece of unicorn birthday cake and a bottle of water (so exciting) I normally bring something in Read more…
May! It’s getting towards the end of May already. How?! This month we’ve had a cracking guest post from Emily Sparkes, comparing the PhD journey to that of a Tough Mud-Dr (geddit?) race; Matthew wrote a lovely letter to all the sales people that have approached him over his years Read more…
Dear Sales people, I am writing to you because I feel that I need to get something off my chest. I’d have done this in person but you are a collective of thousands of people and it seems unlikely that I can persuade you all to meet me at a Read more…