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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Category Archives: Good Science/Research Blogging
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
Synthesis and stuff
I have my shiny peptide synthesizer on demo for the next three weeks so long days and weekends at work for the foreseeable future. I am looking forward to my trip home very much, I am tired of not being … Continue reading
Miscellany
Cicadas have quite a long life cycle*, the nymphs burrow under ground where they live for around five years, they then exit their burrow, climb a plant and moult one last time into the adult morph. The old skins stay … Continue reading
Nishoku (lit. sun eating)
It wasn’t looking good first thing this morning when it was absolutely chucking down, but, in the event, the rain had stopped and the level of cloud cover was just perfect to make naked eye viewing possible. Awesome, my first … Continue reading
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Placebo – the new alternative medicine?
I’ve been listening to this really interesting pair of programs on the placebo effect by Ben Goldacre: Episode 1 Episode 2 The results on ADHD blew my mind. Is it time for a rethink on the way we practice medicine?
