Feeling heavy and tired from the day and browsing for an easy procrastination hook, I stumbled into this article about two boys in Gaza at the wrong place at the wrong time - one dead and the other maimed. Immediately, I am struck by the oppressive empty silence of the office, the incongruous predictability of [...]

Rebreathers are used in surgery and in scuba diving. They are devices that enable the exhaled oxygen (and in the case of surgery, the anaesthetic gases) to be recycled back to the breather. The exhaled breath is passed through an absorbent capsule to remove the carbon dioxide before it is fed back, with a little [...]

I just read an article detailing the results of study into the effects of daily hormone fluctuations on the amount of money made and levels of risk taken by financial traders. I love the suggestion of this correlation across vastly different scales and states - from the minute changes in testosterone and cortisol concentrations in [...]

I really do make myself laugh sometimes.. its an important part of the job. Last night, I was particularly struck by the absurdity of my situation - working back late making fake cum in the office microwave.

Its a little bit chunky, but it does the trick….

Recent confirmation that I am not your typical female: I have fallen in love with a trolley (and I also have a huge crush on my new temperature controlled soldering iron). I am so enamoured with my trolley that I have been espousing its wonderful qualities left, right and centre. Strangely enough, no one else [...]

“Tycho Brahe was a great astronomer, but all we remember about him today is that in the course of a festive dinner at the emperor’s court he was too ashamed to go to the lavatory, so his bladder burst and he departed among the ridiculous immortals as a martyr to shame and urine.” Immortality, Milan [...]

Last week, I took a trip to Perth. I stayed mostly with my parents who have a tenuous connection to the modern world in the form of dialup internet via my father’s laptop. After Easter, Dad and the laptop went to Jakarta for work and Mum and I were left stranded in the vast silence [...]

Last night, falling asleep, I lay pondering about my lack of interest in ‘art stars’. I am not at all interested in whether someone I know is ‘famous’ and I don’t harbour any great desire to meet famous people, even people whose work I admire. Maybe this is because I am too proud to want [...]