Over Easter, I had a very nice lunch back in south Wales, at The Butchers Arms in Alltwen. It was very good, I can recommend it if you are in that part of the world. We asked for a jug of water, which came with slices of both lemon and lime. Very nice. As a scientist I […]
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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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Every year our final-year MPhys students give short talks on what they did during their Research Years. The Research Year is around 11 months doing real leading edge research. All our MPhys students do this after 2½ taught years. After the Research Year they come back for a final ½ taught year, then graduate. This year […]
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Over the years I have worked a fair amount on colloids. Colloids are just suspensions of small solid particles or liquid droplets in a liquid, often water. The particles or droplest are too small to be seen by the naked eye, typically around a thousandth of a millimetre across. Colloids are common. For example, milk […]
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