Tag Archives: science
Baby’s First Picture
The first picture of a baby is usually in the mother’s arms soon after delivery, and becomes pasted into an album for posterity. My mother missed out on that snapshot since I was born in austere post-war London when a … Continue reading
Posted in Biomedical
Tagged baby, eggs, embryology, fertility, medicine, Patrick Steptoe, science, ultrasound
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Seventeen Year Itch
Back in 1996, Bill Clinton was still in his first term of office, Charles and Diana agreed to divorce, the Unabomber was apprehended, and Ella Fitzgerald died. That year I hadn’t even dreamed of moving permanently to North America: I … Continue reading
Posted in Animalia
Tagged Bible, birds, cicada, Death, eggs, locust, mast seeding, naturalist, Richmond, science
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Bee Intelligent
I remember a biology lesson when our schoolteacher laid out a row of pickled brains. The lids of some jars were leaking formaldehyde vapor into the classroom, an irritating odor that I had to get used to after I started … Continue reading
Robert Edwards (1925-2013)
A memorial service for Bob Edwards was held last weekend at Bourn Hall, near Cambridge, England. That is the Jacobean mansion house where he founded the world’s first in vitro clinic for fertility treatment (IVF) with Patrick Steptoe in 1980. … Continue reading
Posted in Memoir
Tagged baby, Cambridge, eggs, embryology, fertility, genetics, IVF, Margaret Thatcher, medicine, Nobel Prize, ovary, Robert_Edwards, science, stem-cells
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Serendipity or Chance
The King of Serendip (Sri Lanka) sent his three sons away to a foreign country to experience life in the real world. They got into trouble, as boys will, when a merchant accused them of stealing a camel he had … Continue reading
Roger musing about Peace with Nature 