Trump is not the new normal
An encouraging article by Maria Konnikova for the New Yorker, How Norms Change, gives me hope that the bizarre behaviour of Donald Trump does not need to become a new normal for America. Konnikova looks at […]
Month: October 2017
Pipette tip personalities
Only science geeks are likely to get this, but it’s surprisingly accurate!
Counting decimal places
As a biochemist I have become quite accustomed to doing unit conversions in my head and working in scientific notation. But we all occasionally have to stop and count decimal places to get it right. […]
Let the bugs live
I read an interesting, and worrying, article today from the Guardian: Warning of ‘ecological Armageddon’ after dramatic plunge in insect numbers. It discussed the results of a longitudinal study surveying the biomass of flying insects […]
