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My other job

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.

Posted byDavid15/11/202415/11/2024Posted inPhotographic, physics, scienceTags: heritage science, manuscripts, OCT

A finger-full of blood for science

Can pollution from London traffic be detected in the blood?

Posted byDavid20/7/2024Posted incycling, General, scienceTags: A13, blood, cycling, experiments, pollution, science, travel

Liverpool 2024

The first few days of 2024 saw me in Liverpool for the Anatomical Society winter meeting. I had a presentation in with Alan Boyde on the topic of developmental collisions in teeth. I’d heard on the news of floods, but the train journey north really highlighted the flooding, either side of the train line was …

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Posted byDavid7/1/20247/1/2024Posted inAnatomy, Photographic, photos, science, Travel

2023

I started 2023 with some plans, but then life happened and some of the plans were disrupted. Let’s see where I got to. Walking Dagenham: My plan to walk every road in Dagenham. I had planned this would take about six months, if I walked at weekends and holidays. It soon became obvious to me …

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Posted byDavid31/12/2023Posted in2023, Dagenham, EndOfYear, geeking, meta, science, Walking Dagenham, weather

Not the December Solstice

That’s tomorrow at 03:27 am.

Posted byDavid21/12/2023Posted inAstronomy, geeking, science

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