I can’t walk on water, but the water strider insect shown to the left, can and does – hence its name water strider or pond skater. The reason why the water striders can walk on water is simple, they are very small (the insect show above has a body maybe a cm long) and the […]
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The Harvard Prof George Church seems to have hit on a new marketing ploy for his upcoming book Regenesis. You may have read it in The Guardian, so it looks like it is working. He has produced it in a new format: DNA. Now, of course a book is just information, which is why you can […]
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This is a quote by Richard Feynmann. I really like it. It is easy to just say I understand something, but if you can make something from scratch, and it works, then at some level you really must understand it. I was reminded of it when I started on some course notes for a course […]
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This is a post on the eye condition ‘wet’ macular degeneration (WMD), there will be about as much of the other sort of WMD as there were in Iraq. I was at a conference on mathematical biology a couple of weeks ago, and heard some great talks. One of the most inspiring was on what […]
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Like a lot of people I am watching a fair bit of the olympics. What the athletes can do is amazing, they are astonishingly fit and skilled. I am also working on how crystals start off life. You may think that there is no connection between the Olympics and crystallisation. But there is, the connection […]
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I think slinky springs are great. The slow motion videos of the slinky are just cool. I also love the fact that towards the end, they interview the guy with the computer model of the slinky spring, and it is just transparent that he loves working out what is happening, just for its own sake. Thanks […]
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