Last week I threaded my way through the shiny glass buildings at UBC to attend, “Behind the Scenes at Nature,” a seminar by Nicola Jones, Nature’s on-line news editor. Nature is the journal to which scientist bow down and worship. Getting published in this most prestigious of scientific journals means you’ve arrived, you’re part of the scientific [...]
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Inspired by Nature
Posted in Uncategorized on January 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Grease is the word
Posted in Uncategorized on January 8, 2009 | 2 Comments »
The era of fat phobia may be coming to an end. Avoiding it like the plague may, after all, not have been necessary all this time. In an earlier blog, I complained about my friend the dietitian who continued to use butter while the rest of us switched to margarine. It wasn’t until margarine was exposed [...]