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Loving torti cats & genetics: Chimera Cat more likely to be X-inactivation?
Okay, that’s it! Someone else shared ‘I F***ing Love Science‘s chimera cat story in my Facebook feed and said they wanted a chimera pet too. Could someone please show me the evidence that it’s a chimera, because I can’t find it. It’s a cat with fantastic markings that’s doing the rounds on the interwebs! And you’re […]
Posted in: biology
Methane mythbusting – Do babies produce methane?
August 16, 2012
What better to welcome us back than a little idiosyncratic methane (CH4) mythbusting! I can hear you groaning, not again! Babies don’t produce methane isn’t a popular myth – unlike the one about methane being the smell in farts – and I acknowledge that it’s something most people have neither considered nor care about. Instead […]
Long time, no post
August 16, 2012
It’s been months and months of absence. Well, not quite, but it has been months since I wrote a proper post. Is it blogger’s block? It all started because I was doing some remunerated writing, and once I slipped out of the habit of un-remunerated blogging it was easy to stay out. I’ve had occasional ideas and even […]
Posted in: blogging
Transit of venus – just my backyard snaps
June 6, 2012
Of course, if you’re a scientist then you need to give precise details of your sophisticated methodology: Find scrap paper that’s left over from some meeting or conference and has cardboard attached Prop it up on a pair of walking boots left outside the back door When the paper starts blowing in the wind, grab […]
Posted in: science
Busting university myths for students – graduate employment rates like an ugly actress in Hollywood
April 25, 2012
Don’t you hate it when you’re right? I thought I was joking when I previously wrote about a career in science: Maybe a better analogy is an actor. Working as a researcher has about as much certainty as an ugly actress in Hollywood. I saw that the Cosmos Ultimate Science Guide 2012 (page 32) had statistics […]
Posted in: science
August 24, 2012
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