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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!

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Public, 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.

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Am 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...

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Why 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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Olex2 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.

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Porous 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?

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Collaboration 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...

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Beijing 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...

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Beijing 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...

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How 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...

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Chroma: 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...

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Outreach – 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...

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Flash 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...

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BCA 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,...

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Science 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...

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Remote 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...

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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!

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Public, 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.

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Am 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 Article

Why 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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