These bank holidays screw up your sense of time… I meant to post this on Wednesday. The small smudge towards the middle of the leaf is my non-traditional entry for EDW this week. Here is a zoom so we can really see the beauty of this little foreign invader. This is Eupteryx decemnotata a Southern …
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A foreign invader for ED
A good scientist takes care of his optics…
I, on the other hand, managed to dissolve two of mine today. Ok, they were both unknown quantities that had been rescued from a junk pile years ago and left to gather dust at home. Today I remembered them and took them to work to see if they’d be any use. A quick blast from …
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Official Photographer
The conference wagon train stops at work next week – two hundred and fifty delegates, five days and some seriously hardcore materials science. On the basis of some photos I took at a wedding (as opposed to wedding photos which would have been done properly), I’ve been elected official conference photographer. Alas, this position does …
Bullshit baffles brains?
The new job is going reasonably well, I’m not sure that I’m over-keen at being introduced to people as the solution to all their troubles, but I hope I can be useful. Tomorrow I have to entertain, persuade and divert some industrial partner visitors. Progress on the project they are coming to see is pretty …
I hope we don’t find the Higgs
As I said yesterday, there are rumours that the Higgs particle may have already been spotted at the Tevatron thus rendering LHC at CERN a tad redundant, but what is the Higgs anyway? Basically the Higgs particle is the last particle predicted by the Standard Model. The Standard Model being the particle physics theory that …