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Posted by on Sep 13, 2008 in Uncategorized | 0 comments

Sorry about not posting for a bit now; I was suddenly thrown into a flurry of activity when a surprising offer to give a spot of academic lecturing and tutoring at Macquarie University came at short notice. I’ve never done any academic lecturing (the occasional lab seminar notwithstanding) and there was a lot of preparation involved, as well as going...

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Out!

Posted by on Aug 31, 2008 in Uncategorized | 1 comment

Tomorrow morning is when SW is due on the shelves of good bookstores* in Australia and NZ and available for order from online stores (such as this one, for example). It also appears to be available, at least potentially, in Amazon France, Amazon Japan, (??) and for loan in Palmerston North library , New Zealand. I have no idea why these places specifically...

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Cow-ordinates

Posted by on Aug 26, 2008 in Uncategorized | 1 comment

When I first came up with the general notion of writing a book about microbes, I had about six “cases” that I thought were really interesting and should be written about. Life being what it is, about half of these originals failed to make it into the finished product. One of these discarded originals was a bit about magnetic bacteria....

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