Merry Christmas everyone!
I’ve started celebrating a little early - last weekend I went up to visit the family - Catherine, Anne, Jim & Mary in Dublin. Also had a fab night out on the town with Denis & friends. Friday wasn’t as busy as expected, Henry St on Sat was black and Sunday we had [...]

The race is run and I was delighted with my time & place (provisional) - 32m 19s and 8th place!
That is the fastest time I’ve ever run 5 miles and the main reason is that I hung onto the coat-tails of Dorel & Sean and a couple of others. The ground was wet but most [...]

Well the budget was announced today - actually saw it live thanks to the HEAnet - in fact I think they might stream all the proceedings in the Dail live - much like Parliament TV. Here’s the direct link - put it into Windows Media Player http://www.heanet.ie/services/multimedia/videostreaming/oireachtas/dail.asx
I didn’t envy Richard Bruton after the giveaway by [...]

Only a few days to go till the funrun - I just hope I don’t get an injury now.
Last wed I got a run done from the concert hall - its definitely over 5 miles
Thu I was busy with labs
Fri I went for a run on the actual course - from the arena sports bar, [...]

Roulette - the band consisting of Damien, George, Graham and Mike, are launching their CD tonight upstairs at Dolans
Dolans event listings
I think I’ll put my neck on the line and say they’re a rock band - the CD is a set of 5 originals too and everyone is welcome, sorry bout the short notice

Benign What you be, after you be eight
Artery The study of paintings
Bacteria Back door to cafeteria
Barium What doctors do when patients die
Caesarean Section A neighbourhood in Rome
Catscan Searching for Kitty
Cauterize Made eye contact with her
Colic A sheep dog
Coma A punctuation mark
Dilate To live long
Enema Not a friend
Fester Quicker than someone else
Fibula A small lie
Impotent Distinguished, well known
Labor Pain Getting hurt at work
Medical Staff A Doctor’s cane
Morbid A higher offer
Nitrates Cheaper than day [...]

For many years molecular biologists have been mystified by the fact that very
little of an organism’s DNA seems to serve any useful function.

I have solved the mystery.

The reason why only 30% of human DNA performs any useful function is that the
rest of it is comments.

Once we decode a typical human genome, we see that the [...]