low-throughput

some random thoughts and quotes about organised (and disorganised) science

Wednesday, 29 December 2010

you start to think it’s normal

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From The Time I Heard the Private Donald J. Rankin String Concerto with One Discordant Violin, by the American Composer John Morton by Yan...
Sunday, 12 December 2010

scientists and bureaucrats

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From the book The Art of James Christensen: Journey of the Imagination ; captions by the author . Three Scientists Debating the Aerody...
Sunday, 28 November 2010

the science of snowballing

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Continuing with the Arctic exploration theme: a scene from hilarious Belgian animation Panique au village (see the trailer ). The three mad...
Monday, 22 November 2010

from annals of adult psychophysics

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Now about the scientific expeditions — in words of a certain Humbert Humbert: One of my favourite doctors, a charming cynical chap with ...
Monday, 1 November 2010

a general disinclination to work of any kind

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From Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome : In the present instance, going back to the liver-pill circular, I had the symptoms, beyo...
Thursday, 21 October 2010

actually working

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My favourite quotes from the Work section of The Lazy Person’s Guide to Life by Gray Joliffe , a truly wonderful book which seems to be o...
Tuesday, 12 October 2010

budget cuts vs Nobel prizes

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Science is Vital has got its official website and a bunch of celebrity supporters, including Sir Patrick Moore and the Nobel laureate Si...
Saturday, 18 September 2010

science is vital

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Britannia used to rule the world but does not any longer. It doesn’t have much in terms of natural resources, the public transport is awful...
Monday, 6 September 2010

not afraid to say “we don’t know”

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From The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yoko Ogawa (translated by Stephen Snyder): “Solving a problem for which you know there’s an ...
Wednesday, 1 September 2010

shortlisted

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“Shortlisted” (or even longlisted) “for Booker / Pulitzer / Orange Prize...” Did you ever wonder why it is OK for fiction authors to put...
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