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NEWS: Science Showoff and TEDx Hull
At the risk of posting something that should probably start with “Just a quick update!“*: I’ll be performing at Science Showoff at the Wilmington Arms on Wednesday 7th December 2011, where I’ll be...
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A Little Banana Activity
It’s a question that bugs us all at some point in our lives: just how many radioactive decays happen in your average banana per second? The banana is often held up (so to speak) as an example of an...
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TEDxHull –“How Do You Kill a Theory?” Video
After coming back from yesterday’s #TEDxImperialCollege, I finally plucked up the courage to watch the TEDx talk I gave at February’s #TEDxHull. All ten videos from Hull’s first (and, I must say,...
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NEWS: CheltSciFest & WinSciFest
The hotels are booked. The speaker information forms are in*. The programme‘s been printed, perused and packed. It’s nearly time for The Times Cheltenham Science festival. This year, Andrew Pontzen...
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The Banana Equivalent Dose Song
(…a.k.a. “And So To BED”.) I’m bashing this post out from my hotel at the The Times Cheltenham Science Festival, where last night you might have been lucky enough to hear some science-based songs from...
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The Langton Star Centre: First Day
Yesterday, The Times Cheltenham Science Festival 2012 drew to a close after a magnificent week of sharing the joy of science with the wonderful Cheltenham Festival audiences – thanks, it must be said,...
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A Century of Cosmic Rays
IT IS PROBABLY FAIR TO SAY that the 4th of July 2012 will go down in history as the day we discovered the Higgs boson (or, at least, something like it). The last jigsaw piece of the Standard Model of...
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What counts as “new” physics?
I can’t lie to you – I really rather enjoyed the phrase “Bog Standard Model“. Punning aside, though, to label the latest Higgs boson results from Kyoto as “boring” is a little harsh. Perhaps the LHC...
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Getting Back on the Grid
It’s been a while since I’ve blogged about what I’m actually doing job-wise at the moment. My “about me” page/Twitter bio states that I’m the “STFC Researcher in Residence for the CERN@school project”,...
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Grid Running – Part I
I’ve just given a talk about CERN@school at #GridPP30, the 30th GridPP Collaboration Meeting, at the University of Glasgow. It’s been a fantastic meeting – kindly sponsored by Dell – and it’s been...
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Grid Running – Part Ia
As a post-script to last week’s post, here’s a snippet of Python code that uses the wonderful matplotlib to display a given frame of Timepix data. It takes the Comma Separated Value (CSV) file...
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A Century of Cosmic Rays
IT IS PROBABLY FAIR TO SAY that the 4th of July 2012 will go down in history as the day we discovered the Higgs boson (or, at least, something like it). The last jigsaw piece of the Standard Model of...
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