I have just got back from a scientific conference in Bristol. I thoroughly enjoyed it; it was great to hear of interesting science, and to meet up with friends I have not met for a year or two. Most of the talks were quite pure science and quite technical, but I did learn about ‘blue […]
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Homeopathy claims to treat illness with dilute solutions of molecules, very dilute solutions of molecules. A standard dilution is to take a solution of a plant extract and then dilute by a factor of 100, 30 times in succession. This dilutes by a factor of 10030. This is seriously dilute. Consider 1cm3 of a 1% solution […]
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Extraordinary levels of drive. This kept both of them at the top of their respective professions for decades. I watched ‘The Secret Life of Bob Monkhouse‘ on BBC4 last night. Monkhouse was a driven complex man who worked very hard to stay at the top of comedy/light-entertainment from the late 1940s almost until his death […]
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For the last post I looked up Adam Riess’s website – he shared the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics for co-discovering the remarkable fact that the rate of expansion of the universe is actually increasing. From that I followed a link to a page with a scan of the page in his logbook where he did […]
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