• Anthropomorphism Gone Wild

    One of my pet hates? Cartoon animals with breasts (I'm opening myself up for some horrendous Google searches, aren't I?). Let's take Madagascar III as an example. All the animals in the first two iterations are relatively animal-like (other than the, you know, part where they can talk)....

  • Lag phase adapts bacteria to new environments

     Forgotten to defrost the chicken overnight in the fridge? That’s fine—you can leave it to thaw at room temperature, right? It will be quicker, after all… But, within just a few hours, the tiny bacteria hiding in frozen food such as chicken, beef or that left over Chinese takeaway can start to...

  • Thirteen things about doing a science PhD...

    ...that I wish I could tell my younger self: 1. It’s not going to be easy or, at least, it won’t feel easy. At some point, you’re probably going to start doubting everything about yourself, from your ability to generate high-quality data to whether that old lady on the bus moved seats because...

  • All ducks are equal but some are more equal than others

    I made the worst decision of my life the other day and think the guilt will linger for at least another decade. You know those little parks you can go to which are liberally scattered with ducks? Ducks on all the ponds, ducks mingling with the sheep and random alpacas, ducks pestering...

  • Rebranding Tuberculosis

     If infectious diseases were monsters, what would they look like? I imagine malaria would be a terrible mosquito-like creature made of bones, with a wickedly sharp proboscis and a throbbing gut of fiery red blood. Diarrhoeal disease would rise from a swamp of sewage, grinning with its skull’s jaw...

  • Wasted Time Isn’t Always Wasted Time

     The other day I commented to the father of my child that having a baby is a little bit like going to prison. Not the ‘nice’ sort of prison where they let you do Open University courses and try to make you a better person. A Victorian-style prison where the inmates are forced to turn a crank...

Saturday, 22 June 2013

Anthropomorphism Gone Wild

Posted by Kathryn at 12:04 • 2 comments
One of my pet hates? Cartoon animals with breasts (I'm opening myself up for some horrendous Google searches, aren't I?). Let's take Madagascar III as an example. All the animals in the first two iterations are relatively animal-like (other than the, you know, part where they can talk). Then we get to the third film...

Tuesday, 4 June 2013

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The Green (Fluorescent Protein)-Eyed Monster

Posted by Kathryn at 19:38 • 0 comments
Is there a formula for scientific success, or do some scientists simply ‘get lucky’? When in doubt, draw a graph. This is not so much useful advice as a way of life. The pros and cons of various DNA ladders? The best flavour of soup for ten minute incubation breaks? Or the relationship between things breaking and student proximity?...
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