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Te Papa Colossal Squid Event
Would you like to watch an incredibly rare colossal squid being defrosted and dissected? You would? Well as luck would have it you can do just that from the website of the Te Papa museum in New Zealand:
Colossal Squid, Te Papa.
Smiler
I still haven’t caught her smiling with my Nikon. As soon as I lift a camera she drops her smile.
Exam papers
It’s the end of April, and the students have sat the exam papers for the modules that I am involved with. We’re working through the statistics and the scores, learning what worked and what didn’t, and the marks from all the papers will be pulled together and presented to the students sometime in the near future.
Already I’ve started work on next year’s exam papers. In fact, I’d started before the students had even sat this year’s exams. The time and organisation required to write, develop and edit new questions with the people that give the lectures, and then to form them into exam papers of the right standard, and then edit, edit, edit and edit some more is taking longer and longer each year. I’m trying to avoid any Forth Bridge references because it feels worse than that. There’s something very permanent about an exam paper. It’s not something you can just paint over again when the last coat starts to crack.
Cast off
I know, no blogging for a week. We’re in exam season at the moment: the first years sat some exams a couple of weeks ago and the second years are in the middle of them right now. It has been very busy and rather taxing here for a couple of weeks requiring much work and tempered blogging. Yes, tempered is definitely the right word, using all of its meanings (even the heating and cooling one).
That aside, Jack had the cast on his arm sawn off yesterday. He was very brave, even though he didn’t really want the nurse to use the saw. The nurse was very good, and Jack was much happier once the cast was off. He kept it and took it home.
The registrar said that his arm should get stronger over the next couple of weeks.
Third cast
Bye, bye cast!
Buzzzzzzzzzz.
Uh-oh, the doctor says Jack should wear a cast for another week. He likes the blue, but was bored to tears hanging around for hours for it, and doesn’t look forward to doing it all again next week.
Sunday afternoons
Saturdays
Saturday mornings.
Snoozing.
Saturday afternoons.
Seriously now
Embryology podcast episodes 11 & 12.
Go to the medicine page to get the latest 2 (yes, 2!) podcasts. They are no. 11: the development of the heart, and no. 12: changes to the foetal circulation at birth, with Dr Geraint Morris.
The MP3s are up, the enhanced AACs will appear on iTunes later today.