Not much blogging this week, as I’m at the World Conference of Science Journalists in Doha, Qatar. I’m informed that the technical term describing my role here is that of trailing spouse. But I did give a little talk on upcoming discoveries we should be looking forward to in particle physics and cosmology.
I’ll try to put up a more full report later. Right now I’ve just been guilted into blogging because I’m listening to a sexy and exciting panel about science blogs, staring Mo Costandi, Maryn McKenna, Jennifer Ouellette, Ed Yong, and Mohammed Yahia. And just to prove I’m here, I can show you what a sign inside Starbucks looks like in an Arab country.
Afterwards I’ll be headed to the souk to shop for scimitars.
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8 responses to “Greetings from Qatar”
Make sure to find out what fraction of the citizens of Qatar believe evolution should be taught in schools.
Is mirror writing good to read?
It should be illegal for people like you to have public lectures or presentations without a camera filming it.
geee, traveling THAT far for Starbucks would NEVER be worth it, so hope you ‘get lucky’ with one of those sexy science panelists (and I don’t mean Ed Yong)…
damascus steel?
Any Arabic spring riots in Qatar?
Somehow “be headed” and “scimitars” in the same sentence reads as “beheaded” 🙁
Was there a WalMart? How about a MacDonalds? Good golly, is there a really cool Apple store? Inquiring minds need to know. Because Qatar is just another guitar without them.