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Sunday Preparations… 26 Aug 2013 | 05:30 am
This is the last day before the new semester starts here at USC. I've been wandering around the house a bit slowly. One reason is probably the excellent dinner party last night, which involved a lot o...
Phase Diagram 20 Aug 2013 | 04:01 am
For those who have a thirst for something physics-y to follow the tomato chutney post, here's a decorated physics diagram I made in Matlab this morning. Click for a larger view. It's the phase diagram...
When Life Hands You Tomatoes… 20 Aug 2013 | 03:23 am
... make chutney! So the garden has been yielding a great deal in the tomato department, as you saw from earlier posts. There's been quite the fig surplus too, but more on that later. Last night - la...
Steamin’ 13 Aug 2013 | 09:24 pm
Yeah! It feels great when I get the workhorse computer really chugging along. 85% is unusual to see on a normal run, since this beast (a 2010 3.32 Ghz Mac pro quad core) has a lot of computational cap...
Tales from the Industry XXXX – Comedy Moments and More 12 Aug 2013 | 07:21 pm
What happened here? Who is that, and what exactly made her so annoyed? Read on! There are a number of new things coming out on screens near you (or may have already aired) that might interest you. Fo...
Franklin Vs Watson and Crick 8 Aug 2013 | 09:57 pm
Wow! This is exactly the kind of thing I've been hoping to see more of! When the report on this started on NPR about having students do music and video about science topics, I groaned a bit (while mak...
Colourful Science Chatter 3 Aug 2013 | 06:59 pm
Well, not a lot to say except that this is the painted version of the panel you saw a few days back, part of a page of the graphic book starring science that I’m working on (follow the link for more)....
Drawing Your Nobel Prize 2 Aug 2013 | 10:31 pm
Another fun combination of science and sketching! Photographer Volker Steger decided get his subjects – a selection of Nobel Prize winners – to try to represent their work (what they got the prize for...
Strange Omission 30 Jul 2013 | 01:42 am
So over a quick lunch of sardines, tomatoes from the garden, and homemade bread*, I decided to glance and the bbc news website. It had a thing in the corner listing the top five stories, and one of th...
More Chatter about Physics 25 Jul 2013 | 08:56 pm
I'm switching tasks again. For a few days I was back on the Project (graphic book starring physics, you may recall) and managed to squeeze out some results. An inked panel from a page I was working on...
