It has been said that young amateur scientists typically fall into one of four categories: those trying to make explosives, those with an interest in electronics, astronomers and those that like to take dead animals apart. I didn’t fit the classification so well, I had an active interest in all of those things. It was …
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A hobby under threat?
It seems that one of the big stories doing the rounds on the ‘blogs today is the dumbing down of childrens’ chemistry sets. When I was growing up as a kid, I remember begging for a chemistry set one Christmas, at the time the holy grail of chemistry sets was the Salters Science Chemistry Set …
Happiness is a warm gun hot soldering iron.
Things are getting along quite well in the new lab. Large pieces of aluminium have been turned into small pieces of aluminium (and a lot of swarf), spectrometers have been upgraded and calibrated, and I’ve just finished building some constant current regulators for low currents. The current regulators don’t work how I thought they should, …
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Quark
I first saw this poem on a poster as part of the Poems on the Underground project run by London Underground. I only saw it once, and could only remember a couple of lines – making it hard to search for. This morning I suddenly remembered much more of the poem and so was able …
Bound and Submitting
If a title like that doesn’t bring the hits in, nothing will. The Thesis, my Magnum opus, is now finished, bound up and submitted. And I’ve just spotted a couple of typos in it. Bugger. Nothing severe like my last thesis, where I got the year wrong on the very first page. I didn’t spot …