New Music Monday – Special New Year’s Eve Mash-Up of Zooey Deschanel & Lou Reed

Hell yeah...it's New Music Monday! This week, it's my special New Year's Eve Mash-Up of Zooey Deschanel's version of "What are you doing New Year's Eve?" and Lou Reed's "Goodnight Ladies". Happy New Year everybody! If you can’t play the song or are on an iPhone or Android phone, click here. What are you doing …

Sometimes You Fall But Sometimes You Fly

Sometimes you wake up. Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly. Neil Gaiman  As the New Year approaches, so does the dreaded spectre of New Year’s resolution, new beginnings, plans and schemes. Things that will last for a few months, and then, peter out. I’m not really one for New …

Xmas New Music Monday – My Version of Jackson Browne’s “The Rebel Jesus”

Hell yeah...it's New Music Monday! Today, it's my Christmas song. And I want to take this opportunity to wish all the readers of this blog a very Happy Christmas and a Peaceful New Year. This is my version of Jackson Browne's "The Rebel Jesus" (Well worth checking out the lyrics on this song): If you …

Goths Don’t Kill People. Guns Do.

In the wake of the unspeakable tragedy that took place in Newtown, Connecticut on Dec 14, it’s understandable that people would try to understand how something like this could happen and how another human being could do such a horrendous thing to defenceless young children and adults. Sadly, it seems that rather than really trying …

New Music Monday – My Version of “Ruby, Don’t Take Your Love To Town”

Hell yeah...it's New Music Monday! This week, it's my version of Kenny Rogers' "Ruby, Don't Take Your Love To Town": If you can’t play the song or are on an iPhone or Android phone, click here. Ruby, don't take your love to town You've painted up your lips And rolled and curled your tinted hair …

The Man Who Missed the Nobel Prize

In 1988, American molecular biologist, Douglas Prasher, received a two-year, $200,000 grant from the American Cancer Society to clone the gene for green fluorescent protein (GFP), the protein that gives the jellyfish its glow. When his funding ran out, Prasher shared his findings with a number of other scientists. These included Martin Chalfie and Roger …

New Music Monday – My Version of Johnny Cash’s “God’s Gonna Cut You Down”

Hell yeah...it's New Music Monday! This week, it's my version of Johnny Cash's "God's Gonna Cut You Down": If you can’t play the song or are on an iPhone or Android phone, click here God's Gonna Cut You Down You can run on for a long time Run on for a long time Run on …