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Tales from Kalgoorlie: Moonfall

This story isn’t

necessarily Kalgoorlie-centric, in as much as it might have happened to me somewhere else at some other, future point in time. But, as it turns out, it did happen in Kalgoorlie and so gives me an opportunity …

Royal Society Archives Are Free! (for now)

Atom and hands machine drawing
Creative Commons License photo credit: Bascom Hogue

Thanks to Irene

for alerting us all to this: until the end of November, the entirety of the Royal Society journals are free to access. Ever want to see the original Newton discussions? Bragg’s papers? How …

Scienterrific

Despite the danger

of turning this wordy blog into a photo-blog (phlog?), here are still more photos from the move. Kristy (our ‘line manager’, hi Kristy!) also mentioned that I’m making the whole moving thing out to sound like it’s …

Mystery Science Image #3

young

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 …

Mystery Science Image #2

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 …