Well, thinking about my travels, the one thing that came up in my mind was something we were speaking about when we were about to leave - the increase in the number of street urchins in Rio that were looking for money or food.
It seemed like there were more this year than usual and indeed […]

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Going to Rio de Janeiro on Saturday to teach on an EMBO course. The temperature right now (early morning in Rio) is 23 degrees C. Time to dust off the flip flops.
Am leaving Ireland on Saturday afternoon late. Flying to Charles de Gaulle airport, just outside Paris. After a very short […]

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In 1998 I was working at The Natural History Museum in London. I liked the job very very much and was entirely content to work there and indeed, things were going well.
Then out of the blue, I got an invitation to go to teach a course in South America. I was asked if […]

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