Carl Zimmer now has a huge ‘emporium’ of science tattoos. Well worth a look:
http://carlzimmer.typepad.com/sciencetattoo
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I looked at this door and for a long time I wondered who might live behind it. Imagine living behind it for years. Growing up in the house with holey doors?
There is something about a door.
Anyway, it’s all over now, but it makes a good photo.
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You have to think that Ireland looks at its best in Autumn. This year, Autumn has been a little late and the leaves have really only started to fall this week and indeed, a lot of trees still look quite leafy.They say that if you are to sell land, you should sell it in […]

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I just looked up the price of Aperture, which is Apple’s software for photograph manipulation and adjustment.
On their US store, the cost of the product is $299.00 while on the Irish website, it costs €319.00. This converts to $459.02 at the moment. This makes this product 53% more expensive here in Ireland than […]

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I think I will put up an occasional photo of mine. I teach biology in Brazil each year (have done for the past 10 years) and it is a great place to take photos. This is a photo of some birds that were flying overhead late one evening in Rio de Janeiro. […]

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Hurricane Dean is among the top 10 strongest hurricanes ever recorded. Of interest here is the fact that six of the top ten have occurred in the past 10 years.
We have been warned!!!
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I was at the university of Bath on Friday to examine a PhD student. It all went great, the degree was awarded and all were happy.
I had some time on Saturday as my Ryanair flight was not leaving until 1805, so I took a walk around the city of Bath.
It is such a beautiful […]

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This is a photo that the university sometimes uses in their advertising material. It is a photograph of me examining an agarose electrophoresis gel that has some DNA on it.

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