Statto’s shorts
My microblog. Syndicated on Twitter and Facebook, but best served in your RSS reader because Twitter and Facebook don’t support proper links and formatting.
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This blog post by Robin Ince is worth reading for the title alone.
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Dude on the Tube pulls out iPhone; calculates 200,000×5; looks quizzical; calculates 5,000,000×0.02; looks satisfied, puts it away.
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Just met with David Willetts and Graham Reid at BIS about the new Science is Vital report.
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What should academics actually do about open access? An excellent train of thought as Jack Stilgoe wonders aloud…
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Whoever writes whatever mind-bending meta-language which must be used to parse regular expressions is probably the world’s cleverest person.
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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…
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Monday photo: distressed dresser.
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@GullwingPhoto It is insanely sharp too…I'll have to send you a full-size shot when I'm near a computer with one!
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Government scientists are being implicitly and explicitly muzzled. Worrying given the importance and complexity of the issues…
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@GullwingPhoto Thanks! It's my new 28mm f/1.8 at f/1.8. Wide aperture wide angle is really cool!
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@GullwingPhoto Do those things even exist to be comprehended? ;) I’d add ‘numbers more than 1000’, ‘distances more than ten miles’ and ‘metaphysics’.
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Friday photo: standing stone.
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@GullwingPhoto Heh. That thing is cool, innit? Humans slap-bang in the middle of an unintelligibly vast/tiny scale bar. :)
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@JazDeLaren It was mainly the ‘sports’ aspect I was worried about!?
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Textbook: ‘Cloning by nuclear transfer has many applications in agriculture, medicine and sports.’ What?! Did I miss an ethics memo?
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@roryprior An excellent word for an excellent smell.
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@christinagiles It’s a good word, innit? And even better in your nose than in your head. :)
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The whole of London smells of petrichor. And breathing deeply to catch that has allowed me to locate several other local smells too.
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@TimandraHarknes Next time, my nipple is all yours. @Sci_ents @Jonwoodscience @huwmjames @JamieBGall @SDurley
