From Claire O’Connell:
The other night while ploughing through an Everest of ironing I watched the BBC programme It’s Only a Theory.
The format is simple: an expert comes in with a theory (e.g. someone has already been born who will live to age 1000) and discusses it with a panel made up of comedian Andy Hamilton [...]

From Claire O’Connell:
Last year I downloaded an audiobook called “Always Looking Up – the adventures of an incurable optimist” by the actor Michael J. Fox.
I’m not quite sure what I expected from it, but having grown up watching Fox on the screen in Family Ties, Back to the Future and Spin City I was curious.
What [...]

From Claire O’Connell:
When I was an aspiring science journalist a few people treated me extraordinarily well. They took time out of a busy schedule to answer my 10 zillion questions, to advise me on best practice and to help build up my contacts.
I will always be grateful to these people, even though many of them [...]

From Claire O’Connell:
When I was an aspiring science journalist a few people treated me extraordinarily well. They took time out of a busy schedule to answer my 10 zillion questions, to advise me on best practice and to help build up my contacts.
I will always be grateful to these people, even though many of them [...]

From Claire O’Connell:
Yes I know, this blog has been superquiet of late. That’s because I haven’t been superquiet.
As ever, family and work are the primary beneficiaries of the 24 hours I’m allotted each day, but that’s not to say musings don’t hit that could easily provide fodder for pieces here.
Also, now that I’m doing more [...]

From Claire O’Connell:
Yes I know, this blog has been superquiet of late. That’s because I haven’t been superquiet.
As ever, family and work are the primary beneficiaries of the 24 hours I’m allotted each day, but that’s not to say musings don’t hit that could easily provide fodder for pieces here.
Also, now that I’m doing more [...]

From Claire O’Connell:
Yes I know, this blog has been superquiet of late. That’s because I haven’t been superquiet.
As ever, family and work are the primary beneficiaries of the 24 hours I’m allotted each day, but that’s not to say musings don’t hit that could easily provide fodder for pieces here.
Also, now that I’m doing more [...]

From Claire O’Connell:
Yes I know, this blog has been superquiet of late. That’s because I haven’t been superquiet.
As ever, family and work are the primary beneficiaries of the 24 hours I’m allotted each day, but that’s not to say musings don’t hit that could easily provide fodder for pieces here.
Also, now that I’m doing more [...]

From Claire O’Connell:
Yes I know, this blog has been superquiet of late. That’s because I haven’t been superquiet.
As ever, family and work are the primary beneficiaries of the 24 hours I’m allotted each day, but that’s not to say musings don’t hit that could easily provide fodder for pieces here.
Also, now that I’m doing more [...]

From Claire O’Connell:
Yes I know, this blog has been superquiet of late. That’s because I haven’t been superquiet.
As ever, family and work are the primary beneficiaries of the 24 hours I’m allotted each day, but that’s not to say musings don’t hit that could easily provide fodder for pieces here.
Also, now that I’m doing more [...]