Flight

I haven't been on many planes in my time. Only a grand total of 7 so far (odd number because I had to get a connection on my way to the AACR conference in Florida last year!). Many others my age and younger have been on more than that before they've celebrated 7 birthdays. When …

The Future of Science?

Yesterday I went to the Dana Centre, attached to the Science Museum, where we were challenged to listen to a series of presentations and decide to whom we would entrust our scientific future. Or something to that effect! Apparently it was to be like speed-dating, without the dating bit, unless you actually got those signals …

Cake or beer? I’ll have the cake, please.

Yesterday was the Science Blogging Talkfest event - photos from (the very sneaky photographer!) Rebecca Smith here, a couple of which I've now stolen (below). So, it was Talkfest and I'm talking in most of the pictures. Makes sense but looking quite ridiculous. Basically some bloggers/readers of blogs/journalists/editors/Tweeters got together to have cake and tea/beer, …

Science Only Adds; Don’t Cut the Budget!

Judge of a man by his questions rather than by his answers. - Voltaire Yesterday evening I attended the 2010 Voltaire Lecture at Conway Hall, a venue that hosts events, discussions and talks on ethical principles and education. Firstly, apologies to physicists for whatever horrible mistakes I may make; feel free to correct me/add necessary …