About Me
If you found me searching for the lyrics to the children's song, you can find them here.
I'm a researcher in Nanobiotechnology currently based in Tokyo and this blog is all about my experiences as an expat living in Japan and about my journey from researcher to designer, or professor, or something anyway. On the way it has grown into something a bit bigger and you will find plenty of posts tackling wider topics.
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Climate Conspiracy? by Ellie Banwell is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 UK: England & Wales License.
Based on a work at www.goingonabearhunt.com
Monthly Archives: March 2010
Vote Labservative!
This is perhaps the best political campaign I’ve ever seen: http://www.labservative.com/ “The most important thing we stand for is reelection”
Quiz of the day:
When was ciabatta invented? Don’t bother looking on Wiki, the answer isn’t there* Mwah ha ha ha HA. *at the time of writing.
Posted in General Meanderings
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Word of the day:
parallelepiped. I should probably have known what it meant before today but I didn’t. Now I do.
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Health Care Reform
I just watched the passing of the American healthcare reform bill live on C-Span. As a Brit living in Japan, it couldn’t really have less of an impact on me and yet I have found the whole process endlessly fascinating … Continue reading
Posted in Politics, Psychology
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The day democracy died
I was going to put up a new post of my own today, but there are more important things afoot and I feel my ramblings can wait. Instead, I am taking the unusual step of publishing someone else’s blog post … Continue reading
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A few thoughts
Here is a collection of a few small thoughts I have had recently that aren’t really big enough for a whole post each, I thought I’d bung them together in a miscellany[1]: 1. Apparently I have been Follow Fridayed a bit … Continue reading
Posted in Bad Science, Education, General Meanderings, Personal, Politics
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Further Education
or “why I am not an elitist bigot”. In case you thought my previous post meant I thought a high-level education was something that should be reserved only for the academic elite, I thought I should explain my position a bit more … Continue reading
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