I should of been a banker
Actually thinking about it whilst you are at it you may as well get rid of the army, police, fire, nurses actually I have a better idea - scrap the government!
View ArticlePublic, science, communication
So, I own the domain, I host the site and now I populate it in my own time to make sure that when those conversations do happen in no way can I be accused of at least wasting their time and their money.
View ArticleAm I famous?
I loved going to conferences. I loved meeting all those people but secretly I also dreaded it. I mean I would see four different people in a group of users nearly every day for half a year. This meant...
View ArticleWhy Can’t I Have Hydrogen Powered Car?
It is a 'H' or aitch as we say back home - that is cool - I should clarify it is cool because well it is the symbol glued to the forehead of Chris Barry when he plays Arnold Rimmer and anything to do...
View ArticleOlex2 Three Years On
Sheldrick brought out a new shelx and the price of crude oil has risen a lot - I don't think there is a correlation there.
View ArticlePorous Materials Database
And perhaps whilst I am building the planet MOF or PMD or whatever you want to call it website. I could finally get around to finishing SoS and making it live?
View ArticleCollaboration and Document Sharing Which is Best?
In academia you are constantly sharing information and working on manuscripts. This often requires you to read, refine, edit, update and send back. This was simple with a piece of paper because there...
View ArticleBeijing Science Festival 2013 – Just a brilliant event
During my recent trip to China I got the unique opportunity as an RSC member to help out on the RSC stand at the Beijing Science Festival (Chinese website). Which ran from the 12-16 September. The RSC...
View ArticleBeijing Science Festival 2013 – Update
So people read my recent post about the how brilliant the Beijing Science Festival 2013 was. I got a few bits of feedback some of which was rather amusing and to be taken “tong in cheek” and some...
View ArticleHow Science Lectures Have Changed
Last week I got the opportunity, more by fluke than by judgement and planning, to sit in on a chemistry lecture course at the University of Manchester. Now you are probably thinking is this really blog...
View ArticleChroma: Art Meets Science #MSF13
This weekend I had the great privilege of being able to help out with a 2013 Manchester Science Festival Event (MSF). Now by help out I really mean stand near the front and look pretty for most of the...
View ArticleOutreach – We all should do more
Hopefully followers of this blog will have seen how I am trying to engage more in public outreach from posts such as “Beijing Science Festival 2013″ (BSF). So visiting my old uni and talking with my...
View ArticleFlash Bang #MSF13
Another Saturday has passed and another great Manchester Science Festival (MSF) event has been assisted. Yes I was turning the lights on and off again and yes that practise from the previous week did...
View ArticleBCA CCG Autumn Meeting: “Increasing Complexity in Crystal Engineering of...
This year the British Crystallographic Association (BCA), Chemical Crystallography Group (CCG) autumn meeting was co-hosted with the Directed Assembly Grand Challenge or the Directed Assembly Network,...
View ArticleScience Communication
I had originally set out to write two blogs from last weeks antics but then the crystallisation of a idea happened. Why not write one blog post? To the reader (that is you) it may perhaps seem lazy but...
View ArticleRemote Islands, Remote Controls and Remote Viewing
Gosh it feels an awful long time ago now, but back in bleak short days of December 2013 I attended another one of the excellent STFC Daresbury Laboratory (DL) public engagement “Talking Science” events...
View ArticleI should of been a banker
Actually thinking about it whilst you are at it you may as well get rid of the army, police, fire, nurses actually I have a better idea - scrap the government!
View ArticlePublic, science, communication
So, I own the domain, I host the site and now I populate it in my own time to make sure that when those conversations do happen in no way can I be accused of at least wasting their time and their money.
View ArticleAm I famous?
I loved going to conferences. I loved meeting all those people but secretly I also dreaded it. I mean I would see four different people in a group of users nearly every day for half a year. This meant...
View ArticleWhy Can’t I Have Hydrogen Powered Car?
It is a 'H' or aitch as we say back home - that is cool - I should clarify it is cool because well it is the symbol glued to the forehead of Chris Barry when he plays Arnold Rimmer and anything to do...
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