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  1. This blog post by Robin Ince is worth reading for the title alone.

    Wednesday 19th June 2013 17:58 GMT

  2. Dude on the Tube pulls out iPhone; calculates 200,000×5; looks quizzical; calculates 5,000,000×0.02; looks satisfied, puts it away.

    Wednesday 19th June 2013 17:11 GMT

  3. Just met with David Willetts and Graham Reid at BIS about the new Science is Vital report.

    Wednesday 19th June 2013 10:07 GMT

  4. What should academics actually do about open access? An excellent train of thought as Jack Stilgoe wonders aloud…

    Tuesday 18th June 2013 21:40 GMT

  5. Whoever writes whatever mind-bending meta-language which must be used to parse regular expressions is probably the world’s cleverest person.

    Tuesday 18th June 2013 14:05 GMT

  6. Sharing the lift with someone carrying a petri dish full of tiny fishies is a new one. I still feel like a physicist in a biology lab…

    Tuesday 18th June 2013 13:50 GMT

  7. Monday photo: distressed dresser.

    Monday 17th June 2013 13:53 GMT

  8. The science funding situation in Spain looks pretty terrible…39% cuts since 2009 is astonishing, and short-sighted.

    Monday 17th June 2013 11:00 GMT

  9. @GullwingPhoto It is insanely sharp too…I'll have to send you a full-size shot when I'm near a computer with one!

    Friday 14th June 2013 11:58 GMT

  10. Government scientists are being implicitly and explicitly muzzled. Worrying given the importance and complexity of the issues…

    Friday 14th June 2013 11:16 GMT

  11. @GullwingPhoto Thanks! It's my new 28mm f/1.8 at f/1.8. Wide aperture wide angle is really cool!

    Friday 14th June 2013 10:55 GMT

  12. @GullwingPhoto Do those things even exist to be comprehended? ;) I’d add ‘numbers more than 1000’, ‘distances more than ten miles’ and ‘metaphysics’.

    Friday 14th June 2013 10:24 GMT

  13. Friday photo: standing stone.

    Friday 14th June 2013 10:17 GMT

  14. @GullwingPhoto Heh. That thing is cool, innit? Humans slap-bang in the middle of an unintelligibly vast/tiny scale bar. :)

    Friday 14th June 2013 10:13 GMT

  15. @JazDeLaren It was mainly the ‘sports’ aspect I was worried about!?

    Tuesday 11th June 2013 16:28 GMT

  16. Textbook: ‘Cloning by nuclear transfer has many applications in agriculture, medicine and sports.’ What?! Did I miss an ethics memo?

    Tuesday 11th June 2013 15:51 GMT

  17. @roryprior An excellent word for an excellent smell.

    Tuesday 11th June 2013 10:24 GMT

  18. @christinagiles It’s a good word, innit? And even better in your nose than in your head. :)

    Tuesday 11th June 2013 10:23 GMT

  19. The whole of London smells of petrichor. And breathing deeply to catch that has allowed me to locate several other local smells too.

    Tuesday 11th June 2013 08:30 GMT

  20. @TimandraHarknes Next time, my nipple is all yours. @Sci_ents @Jonwoodscience @huwmjames @JamieBGall @SDurley

    Tuesday 11th June 2013 08:29 GMT