2008!

I’m back from a two-week trip to Holland. They do have internet there, I know, but I thought it’d be nice to take a blog break as well. My only new year’s resolution is to finish my PhD this year, so expect intermittent blogging. (I do blog more often when I’m on the computer more, so once I start writing my thesis full-time I should be blogging like Bora.)

Meanwhile, while I was away, CRAM science put up an article I wrote for them a while back. CRAM’s audience is 13-19 year-olds, and the website explains scientific concepts behind things that interest teenagers. I was asked to write about piercings. I knew very little about piercings until I started researching — I don’t even have my ears pierced — and wasn’t sure what to expect, but this turned out to be one of the most fun things I’ve ever written. Go have a look, and while you’re there don’t forget to click around the rest of the site. Even if you’re older than the target audience the pieces still make for interesting reading.