Today one of my colleagues was trying to explain about phylogenetic trees in a presentation, and had come across this on the web by way of an entertaining example:


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I'm not sure quite how much this teaches you about molecular biology, but it looks like fun! I wish I'd been a student in 1971......

Good Lord, and it's not even April 1st.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6244153.stm

I always wondered why we didn't enter Paul McCartney or something, sort of figured that would be considered unsporting....

Everyone sing along now:
"Why do I smile at people who I'd much rather kick in the eye?"

This is a very cool little animation.....although I take minor issue with some of the kinetics ;-)

Blargh! I am sick :-( Which means I have had to postpone my epic run for a few days. I've been meaning to update on my running progress for a while, its been going really well! I've really surprised myself actually. I started off running a minute and walking a minute, and building up the running minutes till I could do 4-5 fairly reliably, and 10 ( Read more... )

There has got be be someone on my friends list who can help me with this....(I'm looking at you for starters eggwhiteI work closely with some bioinformaticians/statisticians, including writing papers together. This is somewhat hampered by the fact that they, being geeks*, like to use Unix and hence some of the documents get written using LaTeX. This is ( Read more... )

Had a good weekend this one just gone. Went punting on friday evening with my work colleagues and out for a nice dinner with the lovely Ed after. Punting in Cambridge is much better than punting in Oxford! There are lots of cool bridges and things to see (in one direction - in the other direction there's lots of greenery and a nudist beach). On ( Read more... )

Today I am wearing a rather nice summer dress which buttons all the way up the front (kind of like this but tie dyed and with straps instead of a collar), with a kaftan shirt type thing over the top to keep the sun off. I love this dress, but have not always had the figure to carry it off. So this morning I was feeling groovy in my lovely ( Read more... )

Gosh

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/5169344.stm

Syd, his music and life story, had a huge influence on me as a teenager. I hope he found happiness and peace in his life.

I was working late on my own in the lab this evening, after a long day, concentrating hard on what I had to do. The setting sun cast a gloomy shadow across the bench. The only sound was the gentle hum of machinery; perhaps the distant drip of a tap. ( and then... )