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
Category Archives: Good Science/Research Blogging
Roll of honor
I’m fairly realistic about humans and the things they do, on the whole. I don’t expect much from society and I am seldom disappointed. I try and keep abreast of the latest developments in human selfishness and depravity as, in … Continue reading
A brace of videos on the most bracing of energy solutions.
When I watch videos like this, I want to shout from the roof top in frustration “WHY AREN’T WE ALREADY DOING THIS?!” In the light of the ongoing and increasingly worrisome Horizon oil spill it becomes even more relevant. I’d … Continue reading
Some graphic design
These just popped into my head this afternoon, so I sat up until 4.30 am doing them. I am an idiot. It only took me that long because my laptop wasn’t up to the job, but I couldn’t stop till … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Bad Science, Good Science/Research Blogging, Politics
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Scientists are never 100% certain*
Scientists live in a topsy turvy world of theory, doubt and questioning. We learn to observe evidence and seek it out through careful experimentation. We take our observations and, with meticulous care, we weave each new strand of information into … Continue reading
It’s Geek Week at Going on a Bear Hunt.
This is a poster showing some of the metabolic processes going on inside you right now, as well as some of the ones going on inside that pot plant on the window sill. I find the pathways and reactions themselves … Continue reading
Those damned climate emails
An excellent video on climategate:
Sometimes I get things right
In the comments to my previous post on the Superfreakonomics witch hunt, I suggested that Joe Romm was misrepresenting things on a level far beyond the people he was accusing of doing the same. Here is a quote from Caldeira … Continue reading
Superfreakonomics witch-hunt?
I have watched with interest the controversy over the global warming chapter in Superfreakonomics, the much awaited sequel to Freakonomics by Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner. At first, I believed the hype and I was very discouraged, I love Freakonomics … Continue reading
Jupiter
It’s going to be a bitty entry today, I was going to talk about Harry Kroto yesterday, but I got side-tracked by Barack Obama, so I’ll get onto that in a moment. Yesterdays post was lots of fun :D, I … Continue reading
Ethical?
There is another aspect of the biscuit injury story I want to briefly discuss before I put this to bed. I mentioned in yesterday’s post that Dr Lewis wrote to me and sent me the full report, which he did, … Continue reading
