Follow That Trebuchet
What happened to that amazing plan to blog every week, self? What happened? You're going to have to do a week of lists or something to catch up. But lists are great, right? Everyone likes lists! (Five Vegetables of Most Hellish Taste; Five Beigest Trek Episodes; Five Lego Creations People Should Make For Meeeee….by gum,…
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There was a round on Pointless last week that I found a wee bit irritating (for international readers, Pointless is a rather wonderful teatime game show on the BBC that (1) has proper good questions and (2) is quite tricky to win.) It was about Great Scottish People. All fourteen answers were men. They included…
Okay, I'm one day late, Ada Lovelace Day was actually yesterday, but never mind. Onwards: Named after the first computer programmer, Ada Lovelace Day is about celebrating and raising the profile of women in the sciences, thus I present this list of my ten favourite female scientists (half of them would be on my ten…
