by podblack on July 15, 2010
Just a quick announcement that I’m going to be: 1) Upgrading the blog-site and 2) Working on studies for the rest of the week, so expect only a few updates. School starts for me next week too! Which makes it a little odd that I then go – Vote For Me for the Big Blog [...]
by podblack on July 8, 2010
I’ll be working on reworking the structure of the blog over the coming week – will let you know when things are fully operational again. In the meantime, you may enjoy reading some of my earlier blog-entries and I’ll get back to ‘proper’ science blogging very soon! [GAH - and the broken links are updated [...]
by podblack on March 30, 2010
It’s Particle Collision Day!! These are indeed the days of miracles and wonder… Scientists at CERN achieve high-power collisions of sub-atomic particles in the Large Hadron Collider! The livecast is here. I’m going to be very busy for the next few days and probably out of reach – so here’s something to keep you entertained [...]
by podblack on February 3, 2010
For the past few years (dotted in amongst my posts of YouTube videos and my complaints about doing the ‘Wireless Waltz’ in conference rooms waving my laptop around, trying to get AirPort to pick up a signal)… I have blogged about various research interests and referenced a few papers. It’s good fun to keep track [...]
by podblack on January 3, 2010
This one is a belated musical thank-you to the lovely Crispian Jago, who mentions my blog in the Pod Delusion New Year Awards! I’m very appreciative and show it via silly YouTube stolen clips. Earlier I found this version — Little Kitten – Doctor Who As Belgian Jazz — which was after I watched the [...]
by podblack on December 4, 2009
This one is for JM Abrassart, who is a real sweetie. We were chatting about the ‘End of Time preview‘ and our shared enjoyment of the show and because he’s French, I immediately thought of this… even though the French is hilarious. You should check out his blog called ‘Scepticisme scientifique‘ — even if you [...]
by podblack on September 24, 2009
“Now we can go straight / into the middle eight / a bridge that is too far for me” There’s been a few comments and links popping up over the past two days that I thought I’d collate here – mostly to add to the discussion of skeptical blogging that I started earlier with The [...]
by podblack on September 21, 2009
Welcome to ‘how to write a skeptically-minded blog-post by someone who sails on average around five hundred hits a day for their writing, after slightly over a year of composing various entries ranging from research on women and belief to funny YouTube links about cats‘. Although I clearly have an audience (hello!), the voting for [...]