I’d hope to watch the eclipse from an outdoor balcony looking west over London, but the balcony hadn’t been unlocked. Instead we set up in an air-conditioned lecture theatre with a nice picture window facing west. There were several students already in the room and they were interested to observer the eclispe, and had been …
Category Archives: science
Evaluating the Orphan Grinder
I’m the computer person at work, so I get asked computer things. Today I was asked by a colleague to evaluate the orphan grinder/sea boiler/penguin evictor, to see if it could help them maintain some analysis code they don’t understand. I do not, and have not used the orphan grinder so far. #DontGrindOrphans The colleague …
On The Art Of Teeth – Preview
First Light. Candles illuminating the pathology museum. Casting shadows of the teeth.
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.
A finger-full of blood for science
Can pollution from London traffic be detected in the blood?