Our colleague Paddy Regan has been on all the networks from the BBC to Aljazeera, talking about the Fukushima reactors and the dangers from the radiation. Radioactivity is not my field, Paul knows more than I, see the previous post, but I saw this very nice chart. It illustrates in one image, doses from that from […]
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The recent earthquake and tsunami is a terrible tragedy for Japan and the Japanese people. At current count there are 17,000 dead or missing, according to the BBC news web site, and my heart goes out to the Japanese people in this difficult time. Despite the terrible destruction and loss of life caused, the news […]
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I am teaching things called partial differential equations at the moment. One of the most important of these is the diffusion equation. As the name suggests, it describes diffusion. Diffusion is everywhere. For example, in your body, diffusion is how the oxygen gets from your blood into the cells where it is needed.
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Since I’ve got to the blogosphere a little later than the others, I’ll briefly introduce myself. I am the outreach officer for the physics department which means I organise physics events for local schools and the community. This ranges from workshops in schools, to talks from our academics, to our Science Circus day for […]
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The best thing about making a television documentary is that you get to visit and gain access to locations you would either not be allowed to see or simply did not know about. In the past few years I have had the privilege of holding Newton’s first edition Principia Mathematica (and even checked out some […]
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