The average science experiment has two distinct parts to it. The part when you touch it and the part where you don’t. Some experiments require constant touching, but in general these needy experiments are rare. The vast majority require a bit of touching and a bit of standing and waiting Read more…
It was a dark and stormy night, probably. Joe was working in a basement lab with zero windows and hadn’t been outside since he went out for a Halloween themed doughnut at coffee break. But it was October the 31st and it was gone eight o’clock, so if it wasn’t Read more…
The summer is here! The official start of the summer in the UK is a momentous occasion and is triggered on the day that supermarkets move the bottles of Pimms to the shelves at the front of the store. British people then celebrate this by adorning themselves with their traditional Read more…
Experiments are complicated and difficult things. Experiments are amazing sources of unpredictable chaos no matter how simple they seem. In some ways, this unpredictable complexity is a good thing. Many of those researchers and scientists reading this article have based entire careers on the fact that what they do is complicated Read more…
I am based in the UK. The UK has two very specific properties that I like very much. Firstly, the UK has a climate that for the vast majority of the year could be best described as incredibly and exceptionally okayish. Secondly, we never ever shut up about how occasionally Read more…
Life tends to ebb and flow with workloads, personal crisises and famously, how many busses arrive at any given time. In research this ebb and flow relates to the amount of time researchers have to swear at Microsoft word, as opposed to making clicky noises with pipettes in the lab. Read more…
Shakespeare wrote that “If music be the food of love, then play on”. Clearly he was wrong, everyone knows that pizza is the food of love. If Shakespeare had been more science minded then he would have seen that music is the ‘snack of science’, it’s not required but it sure Read more…
Time are tough. We’re not quite at a ‘Mad Max apocalyptic scenario’ tough, but things are tough. Countries around the world have all suffered through austerity and academic institutions everywhere are looking at the offices full of academics and wondering how many they can get rid to save on the heating Read more…
