Andrew MacLaren-Scott's Blog, page 57
February 22, 2016
Me?
Having been through somewhat of a regeneration recently I offered a profile piece about my science writing career to the journal Science and they published it last week, as can be read by clicking here. The editor asked for a recent photo of myself to give their cartoonist an idea of what I look like, and apparently I look like this:
ILLUSTRATION: ROBERT NEUBECKER
I like it, and for such a prestigious journal as Science to suggest that the light may flow up from my page rather than down onto it is extremely kind. And yes I do often use pen and paper initially, and I have often been told that I have a big head. My science writing is done under my given name, as Andrew Scott (click here), and now, regenerated, I move on, as both of me.
ILLUSTRATION: ROBERT NEUBECKER
I like it, and for such a prestigious journal as Science to suggest that the light may flow up from my page rather than down onto it is extremely kind. And yes I do often use pen and paper initially, and I have often been told that I have a big head. My science writing is done under my given name, as Andrew Scott (click here), and now, regenerated, I move on, as both of me.
Back to bus
A broken car leads me onto the lunchtime bus in among a few free bus-pass chums with all their subdued chatter about hip replacements, heart bypass operations and fittings for new teeth. Oh and a pretty young girl sitting in her social media bubble of selfies and LOLs and FFSs... I can see over her shoulder… while what is apparently called music streams up the wires leading into her ears. The sheep in the field by the bridge run away startled as we bump past, and I don’t blame them.
February 21, 2016
Metaphorically moving again
Earlier than expected, normality returns, or the new normality at least, and as the river still runs, and the winds still blow, and the clouds slip by, up and high, with everything changed, and everything the same, it is my move, my turn, my throw, my go, in this strange and pointless, insignificant, but vital, game, again.
January 6, 2016
Blogging off
I expect to return in March.
Blogging off until March 14
I am currently away from here, and also off email.
I expect to return to this place in March, unless delayed, or detained, or deceased.
I expect to return to this place in March, unless delayed, or detained, or deceased.
January 4, 2016
January 3, 2016
January 2, 2016
While many begin their post-festive dieting...
We are not even two days into 2016 yet and in those not even two days 58763 people have died of hunger already (at 22:01 UTC).
