Using a razor blade as a screwdriver really is a bad idea. The kind of bad idea that leaves you holding you hand up high while someone applies superglue and a plaster to your finger.
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mimeTeX
Ah the joy of being able to typeset proper equations in a ‘blog. I installed mimeTeX a while ago, but didn’t do anything with it right away so I forgot about it. I was just doing some admin on the server that hosts this site when I discovered I had mimeTeX still installed. I will …
Spam
Whee! 118 comments in 12 hours, all spam.
Creatures from the deep
Ok, it isn’t physics but how can I not love an animal who’s name translates from Latin as Bone Eating Snot Flower ? Electron microscope image of the head of the worm Cute isn’t it? More information over at deepsea news and the BBC
More ice and silicon pillars
My work has headed in a slightly different direction over the last couple of weeks, we’ve become much more interested in the nano-scale silicon spikes I described here . We are now pretty sure we can tie together the ice spike phenomenon with the silicon pillar spikes. We have good reason to believe the spikes …