Fergus Ray Murray has joined the Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists. He says: I’m a PhD candidate at the University of the West of Scotland, where my official topic is currently ‘Biologically-Inspired Reaction-Diffusion Networks’. It’s in the School of Computing, but it could probably have been in just about any science-related school. I’ve had […]
Month: April 2008
Wassersuggiana (part 2 of 2)
Having unexpectedly become a eunuch, Richard Wassersug, a professor in the department of anatomy and neurobiology at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, did not despair. Being curious, he turned his apparent tragedy into a happy new obsession. Along with his ongoing exploration of amphibian biology (described last week), Wassersug now conducts research about eunuchs. […]
Judgment on clowns
It’s old news to most people, but despite the best intentions of grown-up administrators, children don’t enjoy being visited upon by clowns. So says (in her own plainspoken way) Dr. Penny Curtis, Senior Lecturer in Research at The University of Sheffield School of Nursing and Midwifery. A press release from the Economic and Social Research […]