Yearly Archives: 2002

worms engender wit

Posted on June 14, 2002 by andrewb

They are the most marvellous creatures. They can even make top ten jokes funny. The reason I had been going to the Ward lab was that it has quicktime of worm sperm so repulsive I needed to footnote the URL … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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rowan williams

Posted on June 14, 2002 by andrewb

Yet another article praising Rowan Williams in this morning’s Times. He is the outstanding candidate to become Archbishop of Canterbury. No journalist has seriously argued otherwise, no matter what bias they started with. The more closely he has been examined, … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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counting words

Posted on June 13, 2002 by andrewb

Word processors are written by programmers but used by writers. There are two things that show this in the case of OO. It has a command to select words by the line — which is a syntactic unit in programming … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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tricky stuff, DNA

Posted on June 13, 2002 by andrewb

I have been ploughing through Genes vii, the standard undergraduate text on modern genetics. For the first time in my life, I understand the appeal of Michael Behe’s arguments: everything in biology is unbelievably complicated when you look at it … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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So the mike was live!

Posted on June 12, 2002 by andrewb

this is an experiment in using Movable type. I hope that it will turn into something both fun and useful. For the moment there’s not much else to record of the day, except that I got to thinking how long … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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