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A rather different week.

This time last week I knew that the week ahead might look a bit different than I am used to, but I didn’t realise it would end up with me being interviewed in the Times and on Radio 4 and being broadcast on German radio too. We published a scientific paper that’s been in the …

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Posted byDavid7/3/2021Posted inexperiments, General, Personal, science, Tech, The Arts, video

An early awakening

Around 5:30 this morning I was rudely awoken from odd dreams about plastic jewellery by loud voices outside my window. Looking out, this was the scene that greeted me. The pipe was happily disgorging hundreds of liters of water per minute, washing away the sub-surface of the road. The water carried the mud and silt …

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Posted byDavid2/8/2018Posted inDagenham, photos, Rivers & streams, video, weirdness

Big Ben Bongs its last

An advantage to knowing someone that works at Parliament is that you can get some behind the scenes tours that are not usually available to the public. Today, I got to visit the House of Lords archives and conservation studios. Today’s visit coincided with the last(-ish) chimes from Big Ben, the bell being taken out …

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Posted byDavid21/8/2017Posted inLondon, Photographic, video, Visit

Poor Mickey

Sometimes when you’re looking around for something to scan in your new-ish CT scanner the answer just lands in your lap. I’ve been doing #xraymyadvent again this year, but thought I’d test out the new scanner with an item more in keeping with the scanner’s intended use. Searching around the lab I found no obvious …

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Posted byDavid16/12/2016Posted inengineering, experiments, geeking, science, video, Xray

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