Just back from the 6th World Conference of Science Journalists in London this week. Tired, suffering the after-effects of overheating in old London buildings with no air conditioning, such as…
A science blog with news and views from science writer David Bradley. Everything from astronomy to zoology by way of biomedicine, chemistry, and nanotechnology, as well as photos from his flickr account and tips from his blogging tips site.
Just back from the 6th World Conference of Science Journalists in London this week. Tired, suffering the after-effects of overheating in old London buildings with no air conditioning, such as…
If you like how Greasemonkey lets you manipulate, skin and mod web pages, then you’ll love what Tidy Favorites does. Not only is it a novel thumbnail-based approach to managing bookmarks, or…
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Giant sperm – Some animals supersize their sperm. Microscopic freshwater ostracods, such as Eucypris virens, for instance have filamentous, spiralling sperm cells that can be up to ten times the…
2 days ago
If you use a Windows machine, no doubt you’re familiar with the three-finger shuffle – control-alt-delete, invented funnily enough by another David Bradley. This no longer reboots your PC, but…
3 days ago
World Conference of Science Journalists in London this week, so here’s a sneak preview of the July 1 issue of SpectroscopyNOW from the David Bradley segments in celebration. Wish me luck in…
A couple of months ago we announced Google Voice, a service that gives you one phone number to link all your phones and makes voicemail as easy as email. We are happy to share that Google Voice is…
1 week ago
The Alchemist learns of a scalable cat this week as well as how the matrix is all important when it comes to identifying metabolites in a single drop of blood.
A small follow-up trial for…
I’ve mentioned cleaning tools for Windows before, among them Crap Cleaner, more delicately known as CCleaner, which almost every time I run it (probably once a month) seems to find several…
Archaeologists were out in force in our village once again, this past weekend. This time their mini dig was part of our four-day Fen Edge Family Festival, for which I was one of the team of…
Occasionally…words fail me…it’s only very, very occasionally as anyone who invites me to dinner parties, the pub, meetings, any social event knows all too well to the detriment of their aural…
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