More than meets the eye

More than meets the eye

So this week I was privileged to be invited to visit the University of Melbourne’s Electron Microscopy Laboratory. A good friend of mine, @fembotanist, is working on her PhD in Botany and was showing some Masters students around the lab and demonstrating some of the awesome equipment it houses. 

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The significance of a theory

The significance of a theory

An approach some people take to denying climate change, or evolution, or the existence of herd immunity is to simply say "it's just a theory". But what is a scientific theory, and why should they carry more weight than your mate's theory about why a souvlaki tastes better after 1am?

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