Geoff Jones

Last nights lecture here in Cambridge was given by the redoubtable Peter Wothers, a superb talker & experimentalist, Its title was “Gods, Devils and Alcohol - Their Influence in Chemical Nomenclature” a sub title might be “With reference to shampoo ingredients accompanied with assorted explosions and fiery happenings”.
The lecture theatre was totally packed, Peter gets [...]

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Last night I went to a couple of excellent talks here in Cambridge. The University talks are one of the big reasons for living in Cambridge, Here is my personal list of talks. Top notch speakers excellent bright youthful audiences and free drinks afterwards whilst chatting with the leading experts of the day.
The first talk [...]

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Just bought the book about the talk I’m now at in the Cambridge Chemistry department. Special 40 per cent reduction and the author, John Emsley, offered to sign it for me
Now for the talk on Molecules of Murder, about Ricin, Hyoscine, Atropine, etc etc

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Today was the second of my blogging and social software master classes at Anglia Ruskin University for the students on the Executive part-time MBA at Cambridge
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Robert, Claire, Ibrahim, Geoff, Stephen, Marcus, Philip, Alison
We went through similar stuff to last time, this time with three more staff members. In the second half we set up [...]

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I managed to get invited to a OHM event at the Saatchi Industry Lab in London on 28th November 2007 where the keynote speaker was Douglas Hubbard, inventor of Applied Information Economics (AIE). Douglas spoke about How to measure anything (which is also the title of his book).
These are my [...]

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For the Embedding Innovation series at Anglia Ruskin University I gave a two hour presentation on social media focusing on how blogging can help small enterprises and introducing them to such concepts as Twitter and Facebook . I made a simple slide show which is now on Slideshare .

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Tonight after the fireworks I took myself off to a biosoc talk by Dr Nick Lane , with the very provocative title of Power, Sex, Suicide: the title of his latest book.The small print Mitochondria and the Meaning of Life was a better description.
The first part was way way over my head and I [...]

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Tomorrow I will be on a panel with Ellee and Simon at the Motor Industry Public Affairs Association “Our first ever Bloggers’ Brunch brings together a number of bloggers from the world of PR and journalism to help you discover the potential - and pitfalls - of this innovative new communications technique”
I have made [...]

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