NaPoWriMo 4: Breath or, Inspiration / Exhalation
An Iain M. Banks Style Spaceship A curious task today: make something using the names of spaceships from Iain M. Banks sci-fi books. It...
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Mar 28, 20131 min
Pesticide makes bees forget the scent for food, new study finds
http://m.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/mar/27/pesticide-bees-scent-food-neocotinoid Just after my piece about how bees see and smell –...
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Mar 27, 20131 min
The Proper Science Behind “The Angry Birds”
How lovely: a fellow science and poetry blogger (but one who writes about the science behind poetry, rather than poetry based on science)...
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Mar 27, 20131 min
Falcons ‘rapidly evolved hunter skill’
Falcons ‘rapidly evolved hunter skill’ http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/21885659 I love raptors – wrote a poem last year about meeting a...
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Mar 25, 20132 min
Little Shadows
How a bee might see a flower – except, not really, because they *smell shapes* (kind of). I’m brewing a project – a series of workshops...
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Mar 15, 20131 min
Vermin On The Rise
A couple of stories recently linked very directly to my Vermin Cycle of poems. The first is the great news that the EU has now banned all...
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Mar 12, 20133 min
Advice for the Artist When Depicting a Lady-Scientist or, Unbecoming
Ada King, Countess of Lovelace – AKA Proto-Computer Queen So Friday was International Women’s Day – and Sunday Mother’s Day. Hurrah for...
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Mar 3, 20133 min
Very Extremely Very
An artist’s impression of the European Extremely Large Telescope, to be built high up in the Andes – placed next to the London Eye, for...
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Feb 26, 20133 min
Can You Take a Moment to Rate This Whale? or, The Appening
A Whale App? But not one like the one in my poem-story, I hope. It appears I’m once again interested in all things animal (as opposed to...
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Feb 22, 20134 min
Canteenosaurus-Rex or, The Numbering of Teeth
A chomping Tyrranosauridae Running a little behind after being struck down with a lurgy last week, but here is my latest sci-po – no...
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Feb 4, 20132 min
The Angry Birds
Part of an excellent comic strip on cat killers from: http://theoatmeal.com/comics/cats_actually_kill – go on their website and buy their...
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Jan 29, 20133 min
774 or, Darkling Child
“Two vortices their nuptials swore…” I’ve been continuing to read Paul Matthews’ excellent book on writing, Sing Me The Creation. One of...
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Jan 21, 20132 min
‘As Above, So Below’ or, ‘Capital E. Control A. Control C. Control V.’
Galaxies or neurons? The Universe is, or is like, a Giant Brain. Or the Brain is, or is like, a Little Universe. Same diff. Last week, I...
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