Hello and welcome to Catching Falling Glassware. Perhaps you're wondering what the name means. Someone once told me that the sign of a good chemist is the ability to catch falling glassware. I'm not a chemist any more, I'm more of a chemical biologist with a side interest in programming, but I am still very clumsy. Consequently, when I'm working in the lab, I drop a lot of stuff. Usually I fail to catch it. Sometimes it breaks. More often, it just spills its rancid contents all over the floor.
Hence the side-interest in programming. You aren't usually in a position to spill your code all over the floor.
A long long time ago, I used to love to write. I wanted to write all the time. Somewhere in the intervening years, I stopped writing. I am out of practice and everything feels a bit clunky. I want to use this blog to get back into the habit of writing -- to discuss cool science and interesting books and of course to indulge in my other favourite subject -- political rants.
Happy reading!
Rebecca
