SpaceUp, scary but awesome

Starting today*, you’re going to be hearing me talk about SpaceUp a lot. You can go over to the SpaceUp site to see what it’s all about, but here, among friends, I wanted to talk about me. Erm, I mean, what it means to me. It started as one of those “why isn’t anyone doing [...]

Let’s hear it for the invertebrates!

The Xerces Society has a new website. Yay, bugs! I mean, seriously, just because they lack endoskeletons and have more appendages than you do is no reason to get all squeamish. Here, we’ll start you off slowly with some really, really important bugs: native honeybees and bumble bees (one of my favorites). And they’ve got [...]

For all the birthdays out there….

This is for Deb, Chris and Ben… Enjoy! (for some reason the linky doesn’t seem to work, so here’s the address just in case: http://youtube.com/watch?v=OrLSbDbEJno)

Thinking of going back for that physics degree? Think ICL!

And why not? Such illustrious stars (ha!ha! stars!) of the music industry like Queen’s Brian May, take time off from their busy touring schedule to complete Ph.D.s in Astrophysics at our fine facilities at Imperial College London. We are the champions, indeed.

site updates ahoy!

I’m hoping to give Global Spin a bit of a refresh over the next [mumble mumble time period], so don’t be alarmed if you see sudden changes or other odd behavior.  For those who are interested in such things, I’ll be: switching to a nicer site theme based on Peaceful Rush upgrading to WordPress 2.2 [...]