The Little Things Matter

Tales of everyday life, the black and white of science coloured by some light-hearted touches of imagination!  

As a pathologist, you quickly learn to appreciate details – the seemingly insignificant and subtle changes that characterise the world under the microscope. Nothing can ever be dismissed as unimportant, mundane, or routine; you are alive to the possibility of the unexpected. It changes your perspective forever. The world, when viewed through a similar lens assumes new proportions; it’s fleeting moments, trifling details, and its brief encounters with creatures small (and big) become both unique and rewarding.

Welcome to Tales of Ipsa! Your place to see the special in the everyday. If a chord is struck or a memory jogged do comment.

Tales of Ipsa

• Every finger has its day
  Why do we have five fingers? Not three or four, or six or eight? Evolution decided that this was the… Read more: Every finger has its day
• Blow hot blow cold
  An Indian summer is here again. As temperatures soar and tempers rise; and the scramble for the AC remote begins,… Read more: Blow hot blow cold
• Good morning!
  A message doing the rounds of social media is that good morning messages will attract exorbitant taxes. It was circulated… Read more: Good morning!
• A jar of face cream
  All I wanted was a jar of face cream. I went down to the local pharmacy downstairs for what I… Read more: A jar of face cream
• A mouthful of bitter melon
  Among my many wonderful childhood memories of food lurks one bitter foe. A mouthful of bitter melon, to be precise.… Read more: A mouthful of bitter melon