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Monthly Archives: October 2009
Mad Science on ‘Fringe’
Walter Bishop from the TV show Fringe really is a mad scientist. Why Walter is a Mad Scientist: He’s heating a test tube with his Bunsen burner set on a yellow safety flame. He’s holding the test tube with a pair of … Continue reading
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U2 and particle tracks
U2’s new tour makes use of a very impressive shape-changing video screen designed by Chuck Hoberman. What piqued my interest was the images in this video of the screen in action: I’m pretty sure that they’re using photographs of particle … Continue reading
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1 million frames per second
Most high-speed videos on the internet are in the region of ten thousand frames per second. Werner Mehl has done better, by a factor of a hundred: bullets at one million frames per second. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QfDoQwIAaXg[/youtube]
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Nobel Prize for Physics 2009
The Nobel Prize for Physics 2009 has been awarded to Charles Kao for his “groundbreaking achievements concerning the transmission of light in fibres for optical communication” and Willard Boyle & George Smith for their “invention of an imaging semiconductor circuit – the … Continue reading
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Decimalising time
This is part of a work in progress… To make teaching significant figures easier I’d like to decimalise time. Basics One 24-hour day would become 1 unit of time, six in the morning would be 0.25, midday would be 0.5 and six … Continue reading
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2009 Ignobel Prizes
The Ig Nobel Prizes are awarded for research that “can not, or should not, be reproduced” or research that “first makes you laugh, then makes you think”. The 2009 prizes have just been awarded: Prize for Mathematics Awarded to Gideon Gono, … Continue reading
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Phonetic numberbet
A lot of people know the phonetic alphabet (A — alpha, B — bravo, C — charlie etc.) but not many people know that there is a number equivalent too: 0. Nadazero 1. Unaone 2. Bissotwo 3. Terrathree 4. Kartefour 5. Pantafive 6. Soxisix 7. Setteseven … Continue reading
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