Making the news

There was an interesting discussion on The Media Show (BBC Radio 4) about communicating university research this week. It was prompted by recent coverage of scientists from Newcastle University who created sperm from embryonic stem cells in a laboratory for the first time.
The panellists discussed the way in which this research was covered in the media, [...]

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Expect the unexpected?

Everywhere I turn at the moment I seem to come across Oxford University, my alma mater. In the past couple of weeks I’ve downloaded umpteen Oxford podcasts from iTunes (very interesting), watched the bearable film The Oxford Murders (not so interesting), received my college magazine (interesting for the fact that my name and Tony Blair’s are listed on the [...]

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Taking Its Toll

My love-hate relationship with the M6 motorway continues apace. Having had a little breather from its congested joys lately in favour of the more pleasant but more time-consuming country route (strangely my car feels like it is vibrating when it gets over about 65mph and makes me feel a bit funny Hopefully pumping up [...]

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Rest in peace

The terrible story about the two French students brutally murdered in London has been making me think about a friend of a friend was murdered in France in 2000 by a serial killer who subsequently killed himself in prison.
I didn’t know Isabel very well but she seemed a really sweet girl and even after all this time I still [...]

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