Chemistry professors talk a lot about intuition, and sometimes I idly wonder whether that’s the only thing we’re really expected to get out of our PhD. The point certainly certainly doesn’t seem to be to get a stellar thesis or do exciting science. This might be why so little faith has been placed in me, [...]
I came across this while reading up on pharma news: It seems that cider may also offer consumers health benefits, say researchers from Glasgow, Scotland. English cider apples have particularly high levels of phenolic antioxidants. Phenolic antioxidants are closely associated with cancer and stroke protection. This is right up there with the general opinion that [...]
Ah, Richard Dawkins, you are without doubt a salve to my soul. I watch with pleasure as you cast your line into the messy, muddy battle of the religion/reality debate. I usually abhor extremists; I normally reject any absolutist position. I find it harder to reject the article above. I have to ask myself, is [...]
This is really disturbing me – an Xboxes blog – where it has essentially been whimpering pathetically daily for the past fortnight. I really, really don’t like this – its like that simpsons joke about ‘why do the robots scream when we open them?’ What kind of sick freak codes an Xbox that emotionally blackmails [...]
Fluid Mechanics was one of the subjects I pursued in college that I found really hard, but which seemed amazingly rewarding. You can do some outrageously cool things with it. This is just one of them: Surfer 20 inches above the water.. Damn cool.