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Comment on That’s one way to intimidate your PhD viva committee by Jenny

Jenny — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 16:46:42 +0000

Gives new meaning to the expression “killer data”.

Comment on That’s one way to intimidate your PhD viva committee by Biopather

Biopather — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 15:19:41 +0000

Huh. Should’ve mentioned my Infantry creds in my viva…

Comment on That’s one way to intimidate your PhD viva committee by Bob O'H

Bob O'H — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 13:24:07 +0000

Ha!

My PhD student started her viva by ordering the opponent (i.e. examiner) and opponent (i.e. chairman) where to sit. I wouldn’t have expected anything less of her: this is the woman who was disappointed when she was told she couldn’t take her knife onto the plane.

Comment on A hard Nutt to crack by The drugs don’t work « faculty of 1000

The drugs don’t work « faculty of 1000 — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 17:31:28 +0000

[...] You can read some measured analysis from Bill Hanage, an epidemiologist at Imperial College, at the LabLit blog. Bill also lambasts politicians of all colours for failing to grasp that evidential science [...]

Comment on Drinking the Kool-Aid by Jenny

Jenny — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 19:58:16 +0000

Hahahaahahaha.

Thanks for the link – it’s brilliant!

‘”Do you know what they call alternative medicine that’s been scientifically proven? ‘Medicine.’

Comment on Drinking the Kool-Aid by Peter Douglas

Peter Douglas — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 11:37:23 +0000

I guess the link for Storm got filtered. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujUQn0HhGEk

Comment on Drinking the Kool-Aid by Peter Douglas

Peter Douglas — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 11:36:35 +0000

Tim Minchin’s “Storm” should be part of the national curriculum, perhaps under the guise of “how to make rhymes in different accents of English”, but actually to teach a bit of critical thinking.

Comment on This stinks by Jenny

Jenny — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 17:56:43 +0000

Next time I run an SDS-PAGE I’ll be sure to sniff.

Jim, sounds like you’d be the perfect person to write a humorous piece on LabLit.com about lab smells…get in touch on editorial[at]lablit.com if you’re interested!

Comment on Drinking the Kool-Aid by Jenny

Jenny — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 17:55:34 +0000

I am a bit pessimistic that anything concrete will come of this regarding the closing of NHS homeopathic hospitals…

Comment on Drinking the Kool-Aid by cromercrox

cromercrox — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 17:53:08 +0000

Why don’t you just drink homeopathic tapwater and get completely trollied?