Yearly Archives: 2002

breaking up

Posted on June 21, 2002 by andrewb

Shameful confession time. Here I am, a science writer of sorts, and I can never remember the difference between mitosis and meiosis. They seem to me like “left” and “right”. I know they are important labels referring to different things … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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my life as a whore

Posted on June 21, 2002 by andrewb

I’m never sure whether journalists more resemble prostitutes when dealing with editors or when talking to people who want to be in the newspapers. In the second case, we get to watch our clients in grip of degrading passions, yet … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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too sick to print

Posted on June 20, 2002 by andrewb

a rumour that Nigel McCullough is the second name on the shortlist for Archbishop of Canterbury that has gone to Tony Blair. Continue reading →

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i dreamed of Francis Crick

Posted on June 20, 2002 by andrewb

This morning, I awoke at six, from a dream in which Francis Crick was talking to me about worms. The odd thing was that I was interviewing him in bed. He wasn’t in bed: he was sitting on the next … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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she jumped

Posted on June 20, 2002 by andrewb

Times Online “THE Church of England has chosen the Archbishop of Wales, Dr Rowan Williams, to be the next Archbishop of Canterbury.” — well, that’s what the story says. Continue reading →

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Missionary activity

Posted on June 19, 2002 by andrewb

There was a perfect fundie story in today’s Guardian, at the end of the World cup section. Not online, so I shall type in the par I loved. It came from an interview with the 22 missionaries of the Northwest … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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Narrow road to the deep shit

Posted on June 19, 2002 by andrewb

From Cringely Now Dash-O no Continue reading →

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taking flight

Posted on June 17, 2002 by andrewb

We travelled yesterday to the Suffolk coast near Aldeburgh, to look at some of the work being done by Helen Gilbart, a painter currently working in the Geological museum in Cambridge. Continue reading →

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a social disease

Posted on June 15, 2002 by andrewb

someone has put one of my addresses in the “from” of a spam. The first I knew about it ws this morning, when there were ten bounce messages in my own incoming spam folder; apparently I have been selling life … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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news on the brink

Posted on June 14, 2002 by andrewb

A friend of mine rang up about half an hour ago, from one of the papers. They had had a tip — well, a suggestive silence — from a member of the Crown Appointments Commission, the committee that shortlists the … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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