Year: 2008

  • Megan’s Big Swim

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    One of our first year medicine students at Swansea is attempting to swim the English Channel next week. As you do. (These students are nuts for doing things that are ridiculously hard). Go see how Megan is getting on at her blog: megansbigswim.wordpress.com. While you’re there, click on her “Sponsor me” link and give some…

  • Lego Universe

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    Wow, Jack is going to love this – Lego are creating a MMORG (massive multiplayer online game). You’ll be able to create your own character and earn bricks by completing tasks and solving puzzles. There’s an epic storyline too, explaining how Lego Universe and its characters came to be. If they get it right like…

  • Jack’s first visit to the climbing wall

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    I took Jack climbing yesterday to Dynamic Rock. We were there for 4 hours and even then he didn’t want to go home! He’s never spent so much time doing anything, except maybe a marathon Star Wars Lego on the Wii stint. It’s a nice climbing wall, and is pretty quiet at this time of…

  • The path home

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    The path home, originally uploaded by samwebster.

  • Time

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    A thing on the BBC News Magazine about not having enough time, or making time, or using your time in the most effective way. Not sure, haven’t got time to read it. It does mention podcasts as being very useful in making the most of your time in between being places and doing things, though.…

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    I’m taking the commenting system offline for a while to cut out the recent high volumes of comment spam I’ve been getting. I’ll put it back on soon.

  • Could water really have a memory?

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    The BBC have written an article on their webpages reminding us why we have to be careful scientists when we interpret our data, and why we use double blind testing. The article talks about a scientist named Jacques Benveniste, who was trying to understand homeopathy in the late 80’s. His data was published in Nature,…

  • epMotion music video

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    I am loving this. If you’re a lab rat I hope this bit of advertising from your favourite pipette supplier tickles you. Click the link: Epmotion Ad.

  • Rich & Matt’s Derwent Water swim

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    A couple of buddies of mine will be swimming the length of Derwent Water in the Lake District this weekend to raise money for charity (and for bragging rights). The length of the lake is a little over 5 miles, and the swim is likely to be a touch longer than that. It’s a cold…

  • Here yesterday. gone the day after

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    I think I got rid of most of these over the weekend. Surprisingly, I actually wore a couple of them out, and didn’t put them all in hedges. Well, on Sunday anyway.