I’m in Italy right now. One of the most noticeable things besides the different language and everyone is tan, is how people drink.

 It’s never really just drinking on its own, there has to be food involved or friends. You don’t go to the bar just to have a pint....

The radio  is something I now take for granted. With Spotify or Apple Music always around. I can choose whatever I want. But there is something nice about the radio. People you don’t know talk about things they kind of know about. And then they play music that’s popular at...

We arrived I think tired the weather was worse than expected especially for a beach. The water tossed and turned and the waves brought sea weed in piles so big that you would have cross it like a small gate in a field. Around the wind moved sand into your...

Today I hiked a volcano. Which is like a mountain that can change under your feet. But it doesn’t usually. I get why people way back would think there are dragons at the top. All the smoke. The strange smells earthquakes. No earthquakes when we were there, but it’s activity...

There were things that I saw that were different but then the same. I have the sneaking suspicion the trees are shorter. And  I know for certain there are many with lemons and oranges some olive trees too. I wonder were they always here, and people just tamed them put...

C in Italy means hot, well caldo means hot. C is written on the faucets and taps where you wash your hands. For a long time like before people could easily travel 1000 miles this didn’t matter. Now it’s just a minor inconvenience when I’m brushing my teeth, or washing...

On a break from work after a while. In Sicily for the week with my partner and her family. The weather is much better than England and the food as well. It’s crazy to think my partner grew up here. It’s a place I think my family would think is...

A lot of my work lately involves learning from other people. The type of research I do currently allows me to techniques I would never be able to do alone, but the data and all the outputs are new to me. This has its upsides, its nice to use techniques...

I think I write about the  sun a lot. People have probably written about the sun a lot. The only constant of our days for however long we have been a thing. I guess maybe even before that. Circadian rhythm. It’s found in plants animals and kind of everything in...

Espresso shot is all I got. Sitting on a rooftop or almost cafe in the hospital. I am fine, here for research, as are the people around me. I can catch some of their conversations. Serious tones. Do you think this model really recapitulates the disease? Do you really believe...