How to communicate 2 Aug 2009 … if you’re a bird: … if you’re a lecturer: I can just see Larry Moran doing this, can’t you? Humor
Biology Short sharp definitions 11 Aug 2010 Over on Twitter, Waterstones bookshops are running a competition to define philosophy in 100 characters. My definitions are below, but it got me thinking. Einstein, I think, said that if you can’t explain it in simple words you don’t understand it, and so I wonder if we can do this… Read More
History Irish history of science 18 Sep 2009 The deputy prime minister, or Tanaiste, of Ireland, has made a slight gaffe: She said the IDA would be marketing Ireland as the innovation island — “like Einstein explaining his theory of evolution”. After that, she said that Ireland would win sport like Darwin discovering gravity, and sing in Eurovision… Read More
Administrative Recursions 28 Feb 2008 Janet asks what others have asked – what is science blogging all about, after a bully in the schoolyard taunted us Sciencebloggers. Her questions (and her answers) are very like mine, so I will steal them, below the fold. Read More
It is a pretty nerdy joke this one, and also a joke that males would tell to his pals. I do not care about that what I care about is that it bores me. or is it that I do not get it?
The world is full of things that are boring to one person or another. When you encounter them, pass on by.