Glad tidings to all.
A fun project I’m tangentially involved in
The postmaster’s treasure chest. Courtesy of the Museum voor Communicatie, The Hague.
Over 2000 letters, none of which were ever delivered. 600 of which have never been opened. We’re going to try to virtually open then using X-Rays.
More here : http://brienne.org/
How dirty is your mug?
DG asks “How dirty is your mug?”
I think mine is a good 7 on his scale. I also think my lab desk probably rates highly too.
Ethnic diversity of Barking and Dagenham
The artist Yanko Tihov has created this map of London diversity made from passport covers. The PDF with keys is here
The details for Barking and Dagenham (as given) are
1. Nigeria
2. India
3. Philippines
From personal experience, I’d have expected Irish and Polish to feature higher.
Lunar Eclipse September 2015
I do like a good eclipse, but not enough to be awake at 3am to photograph it. So, I set up a camera to take one picture every 30 seconds, pointed it roughly where I expected the moon to be at the time of maximum eclipse and set it recording.
Stacking the images with StarStaX produced this rather different view of the eclipse.
Using the same photographs I produced a video of the eclipse too. It starts dark until the moon moves into shot, then the moon fades out nicely, you can see the shadow of the Earth moving down the face of the moon, and then the moon reappearing.