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Right Turn: Andrew Pelling Redux

Andrew Pelling is a self-described biohacker (and also the Canada research chair in experimental cell mechanics at the University of Ottawa) who makes ears out of apples and sees inspiration all around him – but science fiction (The Matrix, Little Shop of Horrors) is...

Right Turn: Resources for scientists

I’ve read enough PhD Comics to understand that being a scientist is hard. (I work with them too, but I’m saving those stories for my tell-all autobiography.) Recently I stumbled upon* what I believe could be a useful resource for scientists to make their lives a...

Right Turn: The art of scientific communication

I’ve been blogging about some of the talks that I heard at the recent Till & McCulloch Meetings (TMM) in Toronto, Canada. Maybe you’ve read them (featuring speakers Molly Shoichet and Milica Radisic)? For this blog, I want to take a different focus. TMM is diverse...

Right Turn: Back to school Part 2

. University and college students have invaded Toronto in the hundreds of thousands (nearly 200,000 apparently). Not that I think this is a bad thing, as I stated last week. I recognize that this is a phenomenon seen across Canada and around the world, but with four...