This is probably
the easiest one so far if you’ve done a bit of physics sometime in the last decade. The experiment that resulted in the above hand sketched pattern (they didn’t have MSPaint back in those days) effectively ended the biggest argument in physics at the time. As usual, once you’ve had a guess you can [...]
photo credit: portfolium
Before I start
today’s post I would like to explain how I get the lovely images like the one you can see just above these words. I use a WordPress plugin called ‘Photo Dropper’ that searches Flickr exclusively for CC licensed images. For each post I think of a word that generally describes [...]
I missed posting
this on Monday, but better late than never. This is actually five different images, all of the same instrument. Apologies for the crap quality, but you should still be able to guess what they are. You may even have used one of them recently, who knows? Here’s the only hint I’ll give: Galileo [...]
photo credit: State Library of New South Wales collection
It feels like
forever since I’ve spent an appreciable amount of time on a book. Tim Winton’s ‘Dirt Music’ is sitting on my computer desk at home, and ‘The Language Instinct’ is looking at my forlornly on my bedside table. Right, promise to self: finish at least [...]
photo credit: el patojo
Another attempt at
automatic content generation I’m afraid. At the end of every (working) week I propose to list the top three songs I’ve listened to for that week and explain why I have that artist on my hard-drive and why I felt like I needed to listen to their song. So [...]