About Me
If you found me searching for the lyrics to the children's song, you can find them here.
I am a researcher in bionanotechnology currently living and working in Tokyo. I moved out here nearly three years ago, against my better judgement but in search of adventure. It has certainly been an adventure and not one I would have missed for the world.
I am trying to retrain as a designer and you may see the odd example of my work appear here as I progress.
I also indulge in opinionated rambling.
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Monthly Archives: June 2010
Ace acety aceington
When I left home for a city 6000 miles away a member of my family (who had to do a similar thing years ago) gave me some advice: she said that, when I came back to visit, I wouldn’t have … Continue reading
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Put to Death
15 points to the first person to correctly identify this quote: Death is Nature’s remedy for all things, and why not Legislation’s? Accordingly, the forger was put to Death; the utterer of a bad note was put to Death; the … Continue reading
Posted in General Meanderings, Politics
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Democracy doesn’t work.
One and a half months on from our election and the punditry continues. As Labour gear up for their leadership election and the ConDem coalition settles down, there are an awful lot of people stating their opinions as to why … Continue reading
Today’s TEDbit
It is so very true that we have lost the art of debate and that we need to bring it back.
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Make up your own mind #flotilla
Lately, I have started getting my news from Al Jazeera as the quality of reporting seems much higher than the alternatives. Today they published this blog post by Jamal Elshayyal, an Al Jazeera journalist and British national who was embedded … Continue reading
Posted in Atheism & Faith, Politics
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Meh, I could do that, no problem ;)
Guillaume Nery base jumping at Dean’s Blue Hole, filmed on breath hold by Julie Gautier
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Selective Facebooking
There is a tool that lets me tweet my new blog posts. Apparently it also has an option that will allow me to selectively publish only those tweets to Facebook. This is a test post to see whether it’s working. … Continue reading
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Denialism
There is one aspect of denialism that really busts my noggin. I find it so hard to get my mind around that I struggle to even put it into words, but I’ll have a go. Why is it that all … Continue reading
Posted in Bad Science, Politics
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