When I’m not looking at teeth and bones, I’m a Gadabout heritage scientist. Today, I’m up in Cambridge looking at old manuscripts with modern science. I’m using optical coherence tomography to see if we can look beneath some corrections in a south American manuscript.
Category Archives: Photographic
Comet
I finally spotted the comet (C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan–ATLAS)) As seen from south Minneapolis.
Imberbus
Full report to follow.
Saw a henge!
We’re off to the Imberbus 2024 event, and as Stone Henge is kinda-sorta on the way, we stopped for a visit. The stones themselves haven’t changed much in the 25 years (almost to the day) since I was last here (parked up in a lay-by on the A303 either before or after the 1999 eclipse), …
Cherry picking
The cherries have been ripe for over a week, but today was the first chance we had to go picking. The train broke down at Tonbridge, so we took a cab to the farm. My tree, number 1909, hadn’t been totally ravaged by the local starlings, and we picked a good 5kg or so of …