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The story I remember is that at the time she worked for Mars (developing the Mars ice cream), so one of the tabloids had the headline: "Woman from Mars goes to space!"

I used to use this (still do really) as a technique when starting undergraduate lectures. They’re there, ready to listen, but chatting away and need a moment to focus their attenti…

Surely this is gross professional misconduct? If one of my postdocs did this they would be at risk of being fired. I would certainly never trust them again. If I let it get through…

Well yes, but just because that’s bad doesn’t mean this isn’t far worse.

Perfect. Right up there with, "but are you a Protestant Muslim or a Catholic Muslim?"

You know I wondered who those guys throwing spears at the busses were. Thought they’d just come doon the watter.

I have a chloroplast for you on line two; can you hold?

I also wasted a lot of my youth playing Elite, so much fun. Check out the page--it also has annotated source code for Elite (a few different versions up there).

Check out the Open University then. It’s the real thing and online. It costs and there are time constraints but they are the experts in remote teaching

Yes, exactly! Just plot all the bloody data and be done with it. No one is doing this by hand anymore so it is no extra work. To my mind, if you have a genuine EDA attitude you plo…

It's the same resource--he gives it away for free, but you can buy the book if you want (I did).

Really pleased to have a play with this--I've so often read comments that the agenda, the calendar, on this thing was better than almost anything since, it was interesting to go an…

And on some cases sugar sugar not syntactic sugar.

And Charlie Stross is not a particularly common name so you could hope for it to be more accurate then for most. My name is somewhat more common (although not the full John Smith) …

The author was an interesting character (and a very prominent scientist--some of his work on enzymes is still taught to undergraduates) and a committed communist. Many of his essay…

Yes, a Swiss Micros DM42. Why? Mostly because I like it, but I justified it to myself by using it in the lab, where having a more expensive screen is not wise. They are also useful…

Any chemists around should read his 'Delta Star' set in the CalTech Chemistry Department. Apparently he was buddies with Harry Grey and spent some time around the school. Grey, the…

That's a good reminder though. I subscribe and don't want to cancel but I would like a discount. Let's see how I get on.

Check out "Street-fighting mathematics" and excellent (free) resource. It's so good I paid for a copy (and his other one) after reading the free version online.

And that’s just the staff; imagine how the students feel.

And rather cutely, the only place in the UK that's given its name to a chemical element.

Don’t be too hard on yourself! Keep it up, have fun and remember it’s a long game.

This is true, and they are valuable. But a students union is best thought of as a very distinct sort of organisation; they are not the same as a labour union. (You obviously know t…

Email predates the web; I got my first email account in 1993, but first opened a browser (Mosaic) the year after.