Lights stolen!

Stolen 2, originally uploaded by JamesZ_Flickr.

Some anti-social individual broke into our secure bike storage room at my apartment building and stole my lights, can you believe that!!! Fortunately not my cycling computer – that has my accumulate miles on it and I didn’t want to lose it!

Just fortunately there is no need to get another set as the days are so long now, so this can wait till the autumn and besides they are cheap anyway, so why bother stealing them?

I was also lucky that my front wheel was still there! Previously I have lost 2 front wheels because, whilst I have a strong lock around the back wheel, other people are foolish enough to lock their bikes by the front wheel. Then a thief comes along and steals this bike by undoing the front wheel and replaces the wheel with somone else’s. So, one should always lock up both wheels!

Useful links for people interested in science.

I thought it might be a good idea to post some links to other science blogs/website and video sites for anyone interested in these.  There are a growing number of these as many individual scientists take communicating science into their own hands. 

Good blogs:

Microbiologybytes:  says it is Microbiology in language everyone can understand.  I’ve only just found this and it does seem really good.

Pharyngula:   Pharyngula was recently named the top most read science blog by the journal Nature.  Described by Richard Dawkins as trenchant good sense, this is my favorite blog, written by PZ Meyers a Professor, evolutionary biologist and atheist at the University of Minnesota.

Partial Immortilization

Nature’s list of the best 50 science blogs

Video sites:

Finally video content for science comes to the Internet, some of the videos may not be to everyone’s taste – so you have been warned!

http://www.dnatube.com/  This is clearly a YouTube type clone, has some interesting looking lectures on there that might be of use to non-scientist – such as what is DNA and what is Gene. 

 http://www.labaction.com/ I liked this the second it loaded!  The first page has several videos of use to me – such as mass spectroscopy.

http://www.jove.com/ Journal of Visualised Experiments

Podcasts:

Nature

Science 

New Scientist 

Scientific American