Deep Thoughts and Silliness Nature Network blog posts from user 'Bob O'Hara' http://network.nature.com/blogs/user/boboh en-us 40 A New Solution for Invasive Species In today’s Observer there is a story that will gladden the hearts of conservationists across the UK. The new way to tackle invasive species is to eat them. According to the paper, grey squirrel (the invasive American species) is the latest meat to hit the shelves. The normal methods of eradication is not going to work (well, I guess we could put poisoned peanuts in ridiculous places where no sane animal would go), so why not eat them?

The Beast agrees of course, although he wonders why we bother to burn it first. He also doesn’t understand the difference between nasty American graey squirrels and good European red squirrels, which might be a problem if we asked him to help. In fairness, he has only tasted the European species.

This is an effort I can get behind, and I think it should be tried for other species too. But it might take a bit longer before someone comes up with a good recipe for cane toad.

]]> Sun, 11 May 2008 08:57:56 -0000 http://network.nature.com/blogs/user/boboh/2008/05/11/a-new-solution-for-invasive-species http://network.nature.com/blogs/user/boboh/2008/05/11/a-new-solution-for-invasive-species Bob O'Hara The Impact Factor Revolution: A Manifesto Bora has a post up about impact factors that links to a discussion in Epidemiology. It’s the usual stuff: how awful they are because they have all sorts of problems. We all know this, but of course it doesn’t stop us all checking the IFs of the journals we want to submit to, and assiduously following our h-index (if anyone would care to cite this paper or this one I’d appreciate it. Thanks).

]]> Fri, 09 May 2008 06:15:26 -0000 http://network.nature.com/blogs/user/boboh/2008/05/09/the-impact-factor-revolution-a-manifesto http://network.nature.com/blogs/user/boboh/2008/05/09/the-impact-factor-revolution-a-manifesto Bob O'Hara Head in the TagClouds Tag clouds are a neat way of summarising the common topics on blogs (the cloud on HolfordWatch is amusing, and this one for the Democratic race is neat). This week they’ve hit the science blogging world. The author of Clastic Detritus applied tag clouds to their papers. This is too neat an idea for me not to join in, so…

]]> Wed, 07 May 2008 06:38:10 -0000 http://network.nature.com/blogs/user/boboh/2008/05/07/head-in-the-tagclouds http://network.nature.com/blogs/user/boboh/2008/05/07/head-in-the-tagclouds Bob O'Hara How Evil Are Journal Editors? I never got any further with this. I’ll post it anyway, and please leave a comment if you notice this post!

]]> Fri, 07 Mar 2008 19:26:50 -0000 http://network.nature.com/blogs/user/boboh/2008/03/07/how-evil-are-journal-editors http://network.nature.com/blogs/user/boboh/2008/03/07/how-evil-are-journal-editors Bob O'Hara Excuse Me Whilst I Vent I’m reading a book about pedagogy in higher education, and I’m presently trying to go through a chapter on course planning. It’s important and should be interesting, but I’m annoyed with having to handle sentences like this:

]]> Mon, 05 May 2008 08:36:21 -0000 http://network.nature.com/blogs/user/boboh/2008/05/05/excuse-me-whilst-i-vent http://network.nature.com/blogs/user/boboh/2008/05/05/excuse-me-whilst-i-vent Bob O'Hara Health News From The Onion:

Woman Overjoyed By Giant Uterine Parasite

Need I add anything?

]]> Sun, 04 May 2008 12:02:49 -0000 http://network.nature.com/blogs/user/boboh/2008/05/04/health-news http://network.nature.com/blogs/user/boboh/2008/05/04/health-news Bob O'Hara Gender Differences: Got More Data I ended up at Nature Networks thanks to a post on my previous blog about a paper in TREE which claimed that the proportion of female authors was increased by double-blond peer review1. In a nutshell, I argued that there wasn’t enough data to show this. Well, things have progressed a bit since then, and now we have more data.

]]> Sat, 03 May 2008 07:57:20 -0000 http://network.nature.com/blogs/user/boboh/2008/05/03/gender-differences-got-more-data http://network.nature.com/blogs/user/boboh/2008/05/03/gender-differences-got-more-data Bob O'Hara Full Marx? I really should write something serious today, but it’ll have to come later. Instead, I want to indulge you in some politics.

I was woken by the World Service1 this morning, with this gem, a politician talking about

“companies in industries such as gems and timber that exploit the labour of the downtrodden Burmese people but enrich only the generals”

Companies enriching the elite by exploiting the labour of the downtrodden people? That’s straight out of Marxist (Karl, not Groucho) rhetoric. So it should be easy to guess who said this…

]]> Fri, 02 May 2008 06:14:01 -0000 http://network.nature.com/blogs/user/boboh/2008/05/02/full-marx http://network.nature.com/blogs/user/boboh/2008/05/02/full-marx Bob O'Hara Cheddar Gorge This

]]> Mon, 28 Apr 2008 10:21:00 -0000 http://network.nature.com/blogs/user/boboh/2008/04/28/cheddar-gorge http://network.nature.com/blogs/user/boboh/2008/04/28/cheddar-gorge Bob O'Hara Is the Biologic Institute Irreducibly Complex? Earlier on this blog I derived some amusement from developments on the Biologic Institute’s webpage. Well, since then things have happened.

]]> Tue, 22 Apr 2008 18:48:15 -0000 http://network.nature.com/blogs/user/boboh/2008/04/22/is-the-biologic-institute-irreducibly-complex http://network.nature.com/blogs/user/boboh/2008/04/22/is-the-biologic-institute-irreducibly-complex Bob O'Hara An Archaeologist Writes This idea of Martin Rundkvist is just too good not to pass on:

Let’s Shoot Bits of Peter Higgs into the LHC!

Now, if any of you physicists know of a good reason why this is a bad idea, kindly keep quiet and let the rest of us remain with our fantasies.

]]> Fri, 25 Apr 2008 13:49:08 -0000 http://network.nature.com/blogs/user/boboh/2008/04/25/an-archaeologist-writes http://network.nature.com/blogs/user/boboh/2008/04/25/an-archaeologist-writes Bob O'Hara I thought I had escaped The web is fully of odd tests designed to reveal your true self. They all seem to be run by dating websites, which makes the one I just tried slightly disturbing. It’s the Dante’s Inferno Test (HT: John Wilkins). And the results are…

]]> Wed, 23 Apr 2008 11:24:55 -0000 http://network.nature.com/blogs/user/boboh/2008/04/23/i-thought-i-had-escaped http://network.nature.com/blogs/user/boboh/2008/04/23/i-thought-i-had-escaped Bob O'Hara Coarse Training I got a leaflet in my mail today about applied stats courses in Reading. One of them is Basic Statistics for Social Researchers, which makes me wonder whether they have web-based courses for anti-social researchers.

]]> Tue, 22 Apr 2008 11:42:15 -0000 http://network.nature.com/blogs/user/boboh/2008/04/22/coarse-training http://network.nature.com/blogs/user/boboh/2008/04/22/coarse-training Bob O'Hara Expelled, at last Well, today’s the day we’ve all been waiting for. Yep, Expelled has finally arrived.

Let’s recap on what they’ve done so far1

Have I missed anything?

]]> Fri, 18 Apr 2008 13:56:27 -0000 http://network.nature.com/blogs/user/boboh/2008/04/18/expelled-at-last http://network.nature.com/blogs/user/boboh/2008/04/18/expelled-at-last Bob O'Hara Adding up is hard to do (warning: boring technical post) (this was meant to nicely complements a post at Nature’s Journal Club
, but it looks as if we’ll have to wait for that one to appear in public)

One of science’s great secrets is that the most influential scientist of the early 20th century was not Einstein, but R.A. Fisher. Einstein did some cool stuff in physics, but confined his science to this area. On the other hand, Fisher managed to father both modern statistics and evolutionary biology. the latter work also had a huge effect on agriculture and breeding (over and above his working out how to do field trials properly).

]]> Wed, 16 Apr 2008 08:03:19 -0000 http://network.nature.com/blogs/user/boboh/2008/04/16/adding-up-is-hard-to-do-warning-boring-technical-post http://network.nature.com/blogs/user/boboh/2008/04/16/adding-up-is-hard-to-do-warning-boring-technical-post Bob O'Hara Poster Boy The theme at NN this week has been popularity and trying to get attention. Always one to charge after a bandwagon, demanding to be let on board, I thought I would chime in.

Even better, there are two bandwagons I can try not to be pushed off. Whilst he’s enjoying himself in Norfolk, Bora’s blog has leapt into action and produced a post on posters. This is too good an opportunity to miss, so I’m reprising the most popular post from my previous place.

]]> Sun, 13 Apr 2008 10:59:14 -0000 http://network.nature.com/blogs/user/boboh/2008/04/13/poster-boy http://network.nature.com/blogs/user/boboh/2008/04/13/poster-boy Bob O'Hara Open Access: Show us the Money! The big news in scientific publishing this week is that the NIH has gone open access. I’m sure that almost everyone on the scientific blogosphere will be saying how wonderful it is that research has to be made public, and the advocates for open access will be happy. So, I’ll take a slightly contrary position. Whilst open access is certainly good in principle, will it work so well in practice? I’m not 100% sure, I can see some problems.

]]> Wed, 09 Apr 2008 18:20:13 -0000 http://network.nature.com/blogs/user/boboh/2008/04/09/open-access-show-us-the-money http://network.nature.com/blogs/user/boboh/2008/04/09/open-access-show-us-the-money Bob O'Hara It Would Make Me Scream Is it wrong to just nick something off Ben Goldacre’s del.icio.us feed? Anyway, I’ll have to look at this later. Apparently it contains footage of vocal chords being distorted by their owners singing in a variety of styles. All to prove that Lemmy isn’t destroying his vocal chords.

What I want to know, though, is what is the effect on your vocal chords of being asked to scream after having an endoscope stuffed down your throat?

]]> Thu, 10 Apr 2008 12:36:02 -0000 http://network.nature.com/blogs/user/boboh/2008/04/10/it-would-make-me-scream http://network.nature.com/blogs/user/boboh/2008/04/10/it-would-make-me-scream Bob O'Hara eLearning and eResearch I’m taking a course in university pedagogy, and last week we were discussing how to use the web in our teaching. As well as being introduced to software like Moodle, we also discussed using blogs and wikis in learning.

Now after reading Jennifer’s post, I’ve also started musing about using these tools in research.

]]> Mon, 31 Mar 2008 12:12:48 -0000 http://network.nature.com/blogs/user/boboh/2008/03/31/elearning-and-eresearch http://network.nature.com/blogs/user/boboh/2008/03/31/elearning-and-eresearch Bob O'Hara What a Prick NZ man ‘used hedgehog as weapon’

Whenever I read stories like these, I’m torn between amusement and feeling sorry for the poor animal. Next time, use a hairbrush, mate. That way you’ll avoid fleas too.

]]> Mon, 07 Apr 2008 10:09:54 -0000 http://network.nature.com/blogs/user/boboh/2008/04/07/what-a-prick http://network.nature.com/blogs/user/boboh/2008/04/07/what-a-prick Bob O'Hara Science: more than just theories Because I’m generally interested in such things, I’ve read a reasonable amount of philosophy of science. Most of it has made some sort of sense, but there always seemed to be something missing. But I think I can see where part of the problem is.

last week, John Wilkins posted his delight that physicists are taking up stamp collecting. At about the same time, Andrew Gelman posted on some comments by Irene Pepperberg saying that testing hypotheses is over-rated. This got me thinking.

]]> Fri, 04 Apr 2008 13:05:10 -0000 http://network.nature.com/blogs/user/boboh/2008/04/04/science-more-than-just-theories http://network.nature.com/blogs/user/boboh/2008/04/04/science-more-than-just-theories Bob O'Hara Short Interlude for Fun I just found this in The Best of Beachcomber), whilst looking for something else:

]]> Sat, 05 Apr 2008 19:18:52 -0000 http://network.nature.com/blogs/user/boboh/2008/04/05/short-interlude-for-fun http://network.nature.com/blogs/user/boboh/2008/04/05/short-interlude-for-fun Bob O'Hara Hello Technorati! Technorati Profile

]]> Sat, 05 Apr 2008 09:09:48 -0000 http://network.nature.com/blogs/user/boboh/2008/04/05/hello-technorati http://network.nature.com/blogs/user/boboh/2008/04/05/hello-technorati Bob O'Hara Academic hemohes? I’m not sure whether to be worried about this or not. For some odd reason, although I’m based at the University of Helsinki, I’m actually employed directly by the Academy of Finland. They largely leave me to my own devices/have as little to do with me as possible (delete as appropriate), so I was a bit surprised to get an email from them yesterday.

]]> Mon, 31 Mar 2008 18:57:34 -0000 http://network.nature.com/blogs/user/boboh/2008/03/31/academic-hemohes http://network.nature.com/blogs/user/boboh/2008/03/31/academic-hemohes Bob O'Hara Beer Stops play Good news: I might be a bit quieter over the next couple of days. Whilst writing yesterday’s blog entry and at the same time converting some old tapes (Led Zep), for those who worry about such things), I incorrectly judged the amount of beer in a bottle, and poured a small but significant proportion over my keyboard. That did for most of the bottom row, and the return key. The worst thing about this incident is that I was sober at the time.

I have been able to write a few comments on blogs, but I have needed to copy and paste some characters (including the carriage return!). Naturally, the C and V keys are affected, so I can’t use the keyboard short-cuts I normally use. I’ve had to come into work to post this (and I might leave with an extra keyboard), but I’m elsewhere until Wednesday.

The good news is that I finally got Laboratory Life through the post, so I have something interesting to read. But all those fascinating insights I was going to bring to the world will have to wait.

]]> Sun, 30 Mar 2008 13:57:44 -0000 http://network.nature.com/blogs/user/boboh/2008/03/30/beer-stops-play http://network.nature.com/blogs/user/boboh/2008/03/30/beer-stops-play Bob O'Hara Scientific Service Industries I was happily writing a reply to Jennifer’s neo-Ludditism, and it was becoming a whinge about the awful things biologists do when they aren’t doing their work properly (i.e. the way statisticians work). Then I started writing it as a blog post. I’ve now decided me eulogising Notepad (it even includes Comic Sans MS!) is not what’s required. And anyway, something more interesting came up.

]]> Thu, 27 Mar 2008 07:51:29 -0000 http://network.nature.com/blogs/user/boboh/2008/03/27/scientific-service-industries http://network.nature.com/blogs/user/boboh/2008/03/27/scientific-service-industries Bob O'Hara Collaborations and other Friday stuff I consider the fact that the greatest piece between you you have considered this already, but for this one small one of you, of whom blog of Brian he did not read, has announced yesterday more when timewaster in elegant and to the hour with the challenge of Gee de Babelization of emfatizou of the Henries. Since then that one inside has introduced them with the first five chains with the famous novels, this one was gezurueckuebersetzt relaunched of the periods and we that we must produce, of that it is the main tube of the collection. The soldiers of the race of the network of the nature could consider already.

]]> Fri, 28 Mar 2008 15:39:18 -0000 http://network.nature.com/blogs/user/boboh/2008/03/28/collaborations-and-other-friday-stuff http://network.nature.com/blogs/user/boboh/2008/03/28/collaborations-and-other-friday-stuff Bob O'Hara Carnival of the Cats has arrived I’ve only just noticed – the latest Carnival of the Cats arrived on Sunday. So toddle on over there for all your moggie magic!

So good, even the Beast is letting me blog tonight!

]]> Tue, 25 Mar 2008 19:52:02 -0000 http://network.nature.com/blogs/user/boboh/2008/03/25/carnival-of-the-cats-has-arrived http://network.nature.com/blogs/user/boboh/2008/03/25/carnival-of-the-cats-has-arrived Bob O'Hara On the Beach I was going to write something serious today, but that has been rather derailed by the photo my agents sent me from yesterday’s secret Nature Editors’ outing to Cromer beach.

]]> Sun, 23 Mar 2008 12:57:05 -0000 http://network.nature.com/blogs/user/boboh/2008/03/23/on-the-beach http://network.nature.com/blogs/user/boboh/2008/03/23/on-the-beach Bob O'Hara Expelled, The Irony I really want to just give the link to this and stand back, but some of you will need the background.

Last year the creationists started talking about a film – Expelled. A few people on the anti-ID side (e.g. PZ Myers, Eugenie Scott, and some English guy called Dawkins) had been interviewed, ostensibly for a film about faith and science, but in reality for a feature-length whinge about how evil Darwinists are.

The film is due to come out on the 18th of April, but there have been some pre-screenings. A few of the anti-ID side noticed this, and that it seemed fairly easy to get an invite, and one poor soul had even seen it.

Last night there was a screening in Minnesota, which is where PZ Myers lives. Now read on

]]> Fri, 21 Mar 2008 10:09:06 -0000 http://network.nature.com/blogs/user/boboh/2008/03/21/expelled-the-irony http://network.nature.com/blogs/user/boboh/2008/03/21/expelled-the-irony Bob O'Hara Cats in the News This morning I received a worrying book through the post for the beast. Although he might try to take art up seriously, his lack of a cultural education (he’s Australian) could be a disadvantage. On the other hand, it might give his work a feral realism to his paintings. At least until he gets bored and walks off.

There are also a couple of feline news-worthy items from the BBC today.

]]> Wed, 19 Mar 2008 14:15:12 -0000 http://network.nature.com/blogs/user/boboh/2008/03/19/cats-in-the-news http://network.nature.com/blogs/user/boboh/2008/03/19/cats-in-the-news Bob O'Hara The Deeper Meaning of a Residual Plot This afternoon I ran an analysis of some sheep data. Being a good boy, I checked how well the model was fitting to the data, and got the following plot:

]]> Mon, 17 Mar 2008 14:42:57 -0000 http://network.nature.com/blogs/user/boboh/2008/03/17/the-deeper-meaning-of-a-residual-plot http://network.nature.com/blogs/user/boboh/2008/03/17/the-deeper-meaning-of-a-residual-plot Bob O'Hara The Bird and The Beast This morning, The Beast got very excited. Normally he sits on the mouse mat demanding attention, or sits on my making sure I can’t refuse. During the course of this, he was distracted:

]]> Sun, 16 Mar 2008 13:29:03 -0000 http://network.nature.com/blogs/user/boboh/2008/03/16/the-bird-and-the-beast http://network.nature.com/blogs/user/boboh/2008/03/16/the-bird-and-the-beast Bob O'Hara Does anybody listen to this guy? The US blogosphere has semi-regular updates about a guy called Vox Day. I wonder if there’s anyone who reads his stuff apart from his detractors (as is pretty much the case for Uncommon Descent).

I mention this now because of MarkH’s post which starts

I love a crank that you only have to quote to utterly humiliate.

And indeed he does.

]]> Wed, 12 Mar 2008 08:29:38 -0000 http://network.nature.com/blogs/user/boboh/2008/03/12/does-anybody-listen-to-this-guy http://network.nature.com/blogs/user/boboh/2008/03/12/does-anybody-listen-to-this-guy Bob O'Hara Live blogging of a presentation I’m sat in a project seminar listening to Timo Knürr’s presentation on association mapping in pine. Unfortunately, Timo is ill, so the talk is being given by his collaborators. One of whom hasn’t even seen the slides.

]]> Tue, 11 Mar 2008 08:25:39 -0000 http://network.nature.com/blogs/user/boboh/2008/03/11/live-blogging-of-a-presentation http://network.nature.com/blogs/user/boboh/2008/03/11/live-blogging-of-a-presentation Bob O'Hara Birdsong Aagh! On the latest Birds in the News, Grrlscientist put up this picture of a cassowary:

]]> Mon, 10 Mar 2008 19:14:30 -0000 http://network.nature.com/blogs/user/boboh/2008/03/10/birdsong http://network.nature.com/blogs/user/boboh/2008/03/10/birdsong Bob O'Hara Nature: The Oldest Blog in the World Via Orac, I see that Wikio has a listing of top science blogs.

]]> Sat, 08 Mar 2008 10:54:23 -0000 http://network.nature.com/blogs/user/boboh/2008/03/08/nature-the-oldest-blog-in-the-world http://network.nature.com/blogs/user/boboh/2008/03/08/nature-the-oldest-blog-in-the-world Bob O'Hara Live blogging the Spring Symposium II: breaks between talks Now this is how to organise a small gap between talks in a meeting – we’ve just had The Lumberjack Song.

There is obviously plenty of scope for matching sketch to talker/area (hmm, Jostein was in the “Ministry of Silly Walks” session. How appropriate). Get to it folks!

]]> Wed, 05 Mar 2008 09:16:17 -0000 http://network.nature.com/blogs/user/boboh/2008/03/05/live-blogging-the-spring-symposium-ii-breaks-between-talks http://network.nature.com/blogs/user/boboh/2008/03/05/live-blogging-the-spring-symposium-ii-breaks-between-talks Bob O'Hara Live BLogging: Spring Symposium This is one of the really cool things that they do in Helsinki. Every year the ecology and evolutionary biologists con 4 students into organising a symposium for their division (it used to be for the department, before it was poisoned by administratium). So here I am, live blogging whilst Hanna is mangling her Spanish introducing the foreign guests.

]]> Mon, 03 Mar 2008 08:36:53 -0000 http://network.nature.com/blogs/user/boboh/2008/03/03/live-blogging-spring-symposium http://network.nature.com/blogs/user/boboh/2008/03/03/live-blogging-spring-symposium Bob O'Hara Food and Drink to a Statistician I keep on insisting that results are best presented as graphs – lots of tables and p-values just add clutter.

I now see this even works for blog posts.

]]> Mon, 03 Mar 2008 06:01:20 -0000 http://network.nature.com/blogs/user/boboh/2008/03/03/food-and-drink-to-a-statistician http://network.nature.com/blogs/user/boboh/2008/03/03/food-and-drink-to-a-statistician Bob O'Hara The Biologic Institute has evolved! Yes, it’s true. The Biologic Institute, the research arm of the Discovery Institute (the main pushers of Intelligent Design) has evolved. Or at least its web page has.

]]> Sun, 02 Mar 2008 18:56:05 -0000 http://network.nature.com/blogs/user/boboh/2008/03/02/the-biologic-institute-has-evolved http://network.nature.com/blogs/user/boboh/2008/03/02/the-biologic-institute-has-evolved Bob O'Hara At last I think Charles Dickens is to blame. Along with the a long conspiracy of English teachers.

]]> Sun, 02 Mar 2008 17:09:32 -0000 http://network.nature.com/blogs/user/boboh/2008/03/02/at-last http://network.nature.com/blogs/user/boboh/2008/03/02/at-last Bob O'Hara Myself, found Bronwen Dekker posted about googling oneself, so like any good egoist I did the same.

]]> Thu, 28 Feb 2008 10:56:54 -0000 http://network.nature.com/blogs/user/boboh/2008/02/28/myself-found http://network.nature.com/blogs/user/boboh/2008/02/28/myself-found Bob O'Hara Carnival of Cities It’s up – the Carnival of Cities, over at GrrlScientist’s place.

]]> Wed, 27 Feb 2008 17:32:29 -0000 http://network.nature.com/blogs/user/boboh/2008/02/27/carnival-of-cities http://network.nature.com/blogs/user/boboh/2008/02/27/carnival-of-cities Bob O'Hara Nietzsche Was Wrong The big news on the BBC World Service (and elsewhere morning was that their desks had been shaken by an earthquake. I reckon this doesn’t look good for God.

]]> Wed, 27 Feb 2008 15:46:17 -0000 http://network.nature.com/blogs/user/boboh/2008/02/27/nietzsche-was-wrong http://network.nature.com/blogs/user/boboh/2008/02/27/nietzsche-was-wrong Bob O'Hara Ridding the Scientific World of a Small Evil I’ve just had a simple but brilliant idea to finally get rid of the p-value.

]]> Wed, 27 Feb 2008 09:06:45 -0000 http://network.nature.com/blogs/user/boboh/2008/02/27/ridding-the-scientific-world-of-a-small-evil http://network.nature.com/blogs/user/boboh/2008/02/27/ridding-the-scientific-world-of-a-small-evil Bob O'Hara Helsinki Grrlscientist is glaring at me virtually, so I had better write something about Helsinki, for the Carnival of Cities blog festival she’s compiling. I’m a bit unsure about this, for the simple reason that I’m not sure Helsinki really counts as a city.

]]> Sun, 24 Feb 2008 16:17:16 -0000 http://network.nature.com/blogs/user/boboh/2008/02/24/helsinki http://network.nature.com/blogs/user/boboh/2008/02/24/helsinki Bob O'Hara Now, this is embarrassing I’ve just received an email from a colleague telling me (well, us) that our paper is now online.

I had totally forgotten that I was on the paper.

]]> Fri, 22 Feb 2008 09:28:47 -0000 http://network.nature.com/blogs/user/boboh/2008/02/22/now-this-is-embarrassing http://network.nature.com/blogs/user/boboh/2008/02/22/now-this-is-embarrassing Bob O'Hara Welcome, The End Is Nigh We all know that life now is not as good as it was in the Golden Days, where everyone wore rose-tinted spectacles, the sky was blue, before the days of colour. It is this obvious that things must be getting worse.

]]> Wed, 20 Feb 2008 19:51:02 -0000 http://network.nature.com/blogs/user/boboh/2008/02/20/welcome-the-end-is-nigh http://network.nature.com/blogs/user/boboh/2008/02/20/welcome-the-end-is-nigh Bob O'Hara