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Category: science

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 monotonous, boring work akin to digging in a coal mine. Which it kind of is, but [...]

Mystery Science Image #3

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 [...]

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 even have used one of them recently, who knows? Here’s the only hint I’ll give: Galileo [...]

Mystery Scientific Image #1

In the interest
maintaining some regular features at this blog, I’m going to try out a new series of posts. Every Monday I will post an image from science and ask participants to try and identify what the image is before clicking on the link below it to discover the answer and hopefully learn something new. [...]