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Monthly Archives: September 2009
Building ATLAS
This video is amazing: the entire ATLAS detector build process in five minutes, a combination of photographs and time-lapse photography. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9q0XLMkeGc[/youtube] Make sure to click through to YouTube to watch in HD.
Tagged ATLAS, CERN, LHC
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Violets are blue
Dominic Tinley has a great post about the colour violet on his blog, following up his talk from Interesting2009. I particularly like (and will be stealing) his “pigments of your imagination” line.
Tagged Interesting2009
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Physics bookends
The always awesome Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories have a super-easy how-to for making perfect bra-ket physics bookends.
Tagged books, library
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Careers in Science
WIRED magazine has a long-running feature on Careers in Science. Already covered: Game Developer Neutrino Physicist Team Doctor Geochemist Astronaut Journalist
Tagged careers
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How many people are in space right now?
This is absolutely my favourite single serving website ever: http://www.howmanypeopleareinspacerightnow.com/
Tagged astronaut, space
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Kopp-Etchells Effect
The Kopp-Etchells effect is the name given by Michael Yon to a phenomenon he witnessed in Afghanistan. As a helicopter comes in to land a great cloud of dust is stirred up; the impact of this dust on the rotor … Continue reading
Tagged friction, helicopter
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Mine your own bismuth
This image, from Wikimedia Commons’ Image of the Day collection is one of the most beautiful pictures of bismuth I’ve ever seen.
Tagged bismuth
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Interesting2009
I had the good fortune to speak at Interesting2009 this weekend; below is my Roo Reynolds-style round-up. Tom Loosemore fought with the laptop to bring us a foul-mouthed (“Larry Ellison’s penis extension”) tour of attempts to break the 50 knot … Continue reading
Tagged Interesting2009
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Floating in mercury
Whilst planning a lesson yesterday I discovered that there aren’t many good photographs of objects floating in mercury on the web. This post is an attempt to rectify this problem. Pound Coin: Slotted Mass: Brass Weight:
Tagged mercury
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Kill or cure?
Kill or cure? “helps to make sense of the Daily Mail’s ongoing effort to classify every inanimate object into those that cause cancer and those that prevent it.”
Tagged dailymail
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