http://www.talesfromthelab.com/ Tales From The Lab en Tue, 07 Oct 2008 11:15:00 GMT Tue, 07 Oct 2008 11:15:00 GMT info@talesfromthelab.com info@talesfromthelab.com http://www.talesfromthelab.com/asteroid-coming-this-way/ Was driving home from work tonight listening to the radio as usual, and was genuinely surprised to hear that an asteroid was headed our way. Wow. I was also amazed... http://www.talesfromthelab.com/asteroid-coming-this-way/#comments http://www.talesfromthelab.com/asteroid-coming-this-way/ Tue, 07 Oct 2008 11:15:00 GMT http://www.talesfromthelab.com/tall-poppy-no-attention/ My last post was concerned with Prof Ian Frazer winning the Balzan Prize and at the time it rightly received a fair amount of media attention. I'm fairly sure that's... http://www.talesfromthelab.com/tall-poppy-no-attention/#comments http://www.talesfromthelab.com/tall-poppy-no-attention/ Sun, 21 Sep 2008 12:12:00 GMT http://www.talesfromthelab.com/not-the-lhc-but-gods-gift-nonetheless/ It's a big week in science. You might expect that I would be writing about the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, given that the experiment began today. It seems that... http://www.talesfromthelab.com/not-the-lhc-but-gods-gift-nonetheless/#comments http://www.talesfromthelab.com/not-the-lhc-but-gods-gift-nonetheless/ Wed, 10 Sep 2008 12:24:00 GMT http://www.talesfromthelab.com/my-other-compass-is-a-cow/ I love these sorts of stories. A team of scientist is saying that cows have inbuilt compasses and can detect north. They looked at thousands of images of cattle in... http://www.talesfromthelab.com/my-other-compass-is-a-cow/#comments http://www.talesfromthelab.com/my-other-compass-is-a-cow/ Fri, 29 Aug 2008 12:20:00 GMT http://www.talesfromthelab.com/the-truth-about-cats-and-dogs/ There have been a number of interesting dog stories lately but I'm a cat person and thus was amused to read that cats and dogs can successfully live together... http://www.talesfromthelab.com/the-truth-about-cats-and-dogs/#comments http://www.talesfromthelab.com/the-truth-about-cats-and-dogs/ Wed, 20 Aug 2008 10:25:00 GMT http://www.talesfromthelab.com/moisturisers-and-skin-cancer/ Today AAP is reporting a study out of Rutgers University linking moisturisers and skin cancer in people who were heavily sun-exposed as youngsters. The reason the scientists chose to look... http://www.talesfromthelab.com/moisturisers-and-skin-cancer/#comments http://www.talesfromthelab.com/moisturisers-and-skin-cancer/ Fri, 15 Aug 2008 09:45:00 GMT http://www.talesfromthelab.com/cretinism-salt-and-bread-what-do-they-have-in-common/ To most people, the word cretin is simply an insult on someone's intelligence but in fact cretinism is actually a very serious condition. Definitions range from the slightly unhelpful "idiot... http://www.talesfromthelab.com/cretinism-salt-and-bread-what-do-they-have-in-common/#comments http://www.talesfromthelab.com/cretinism-salt-and-bread-what-do-they-have-in-common/ Tue, 29 Jul 2008 13:46:00 GMT http://www.talesfromthelab.com/my-favourite-flavoured-breast-milk/ Yesterday a friend's Facebook status update stated that she was pondering how one side dish of asparagus can go through the milk and turn a baby's poo green for three... http://www.talesfromthelab.com/my-favourite-flavoured-breast-milk/#comments http://www.talesfromthelab.com/my-favourite-flavoured-breast-milk/ Thu, 24 Jul 2008 13:30:00 GMT http://www.talesfromthelab.com/unidentified-bug-roams-london/ To prove once again that we don't know everything about this planet or life on it, a previously unknown bug is roaming the gardens of the Natural History Museum in... http://www.talesfromthelab.com/unidentified-bug-roams-london/#comments http://www.talesfromthelab.com/unidentified-bug-roams-london/ Fri, 18 Jul 2008 01:10:00 GMT http://www.talesfromthelab.com/coalgenerated-co2-capture/ An interesting press release came through my inbox earlier today, which I imagine will hit the papers tomorrow: CSIRO has captured carbon dioxide from the gasses produced at a power... http://www.talesfromthelab.com/coalgenerated-co2-capture/#comments http://www.talesfromthelab.com/coalgenerated-co2-capture/ Thu, 10 Jul 2008 05:50:00 GMT http://www.talesfromthelab.com/asymmetry-fashion-disaster/ This article (Lopsided 80s haircuts 'counter-evolutionary') is a little old but it appeals to me, not least because a mathematician makes a funny. For years we've been told that symmetry... http://www.talesfromthelab.com/asymmetry-fashion-disaster/#comments http://www.talesfromthelab.com/asymmetry-fashion-disaster/ Tue, 08 Jul 2008 11:10:00 GMT http://www.talesfromthelab.com/you-are-what-you-read/ I couldn't sleep last night and turned on Radio National for some quality white noise but instead actively listened. The Book Show's lead interview followed up on a New Scientist... http://www.talesfromthelab.com/you-are-what-you-read/#comments http://www.talesfromthelab.com/you-are-what-you-read/ Mon, 07 Jul 2008 04:05:00 GMT http://www.talesfromthelab.com/welcome/128/ Welcome to what I think is interesting in the world of science. I cringe at using the S word though as it's so loaded - people turn off when it... http://www.talesfromthelab.com/welcome/128/#comments http://www.talesfromthelab.com/welcome/128/ Mon, 07 Jul 2008 02:54:35 GMT