Your Famous Last Words Will Be:

“So, you’re a cannibal.”

What Will Your Famous Last Words Be?
No boring old natural death for me…

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We had an interesting discussion at today’s Journal Club talk regarding people’s ‘grandfathers’, by which is meant their supervisor’s supervisor(’s supervisor(’s supervisor(’s supervisor(you get the idea)))). It turns out the Stephane’s great-great grandfather was Alexander Fridman of cosmological fame, and he supervised George Gamow, who supervised Vera Rubin, who supervised Sandra Faber, who supervised Stephane [...]

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Today’s quote

‘I got an inflatable sheep for Christmas.’
From my office mate James.

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I got back from my Christmas vacation over the weekend. Three weeks in Montreal. Lots of arguments. OK, a couple. After reading my rather angry rant about digg users trying to DoS GodHatesFags, my brother and I spent at least an hour on New Year’s Eve (he interrupted me while I was playing Final Fantasy [...]

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RIP Momofuku Ando

The inventor of one of my favourite foods has died. PHDcomics honours the great man.

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