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The limits of monomaniacal workaholism

Posted on June 30, 2008 by Chris Rowan

I’ve spent most of the last three days camped in front of a scanning electron microscope, looking at lots of evil iron sulphides. And when I say ‘most’, I really do mean ‘most’. The problem when you want access to … Continue reading →

Categories: academic life, in the lab

Fire!

Posted on June 24, 2008 by Chris Rowan

I walked into work today under a beautiful, cloudless, sky – until I looked in the direction of the UJ campus, where an ugly black cloud was accumulating in the direction of the building that houses the Geology department. It … Continue reading →

Categories: academic life, bloggery