A certain Gem was a guest over Christmas, and expressed a desire to visit an exhibition at the Science Museum. As she’s a maths student Heather and I agreed to go with her. The exhibition wasn’t all that, but at least it was the Science Museum. Continue reading
A couple of years ago, we had some daffodils in the house, complete bulbs that is, which grew and were lovely. We put the bulbs away in some soil in the hope they would return. They did nothing last year though, and we thought they were doing nothing this year—to Continue reading …
Not bad for a handheld shot on my phone
The incomparable, and appropriately named, Amazing Randi died last week. He was the finest of sceptics, and a knight of truth. I feel his anger towards those who would lie and take advantage. Here is his marvellous TED Talk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0Z7KeNCi7g Here he is in an interview basically doing Uri Geller’s Continue reading …
NASA SpaceX Demo-2 looking much more hopeful for launch this time round. Come on!
Nothing like watching a new era of space launches (assuming the weather gets out the way) #SpaceX #NASA
I recently had to use up some leave and so had a week off work. Unfortunately maintenance to the drains where I live meant I had to be out of home for the first day. Fortunately this give a chance to head for the Science Museum
A fun animation of planetary rotation and tilt Continue reading
A journey north with friends to see an exhibition that seemed only half there. Much tourism of city and coast was had anyway Continue reading
Back when I used to play with an STM I used to get quite excited when sixth formers came around, showing them individual atoms appearing in a scan (probably of a Si 7×7 reconstruction). This is probably as close as that to really seeing an atom. Cool stuff.