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Popular Science and Cosmic Simulations
Science is not the private playground of people in white coats with clipboards. Popular Science is a good thing. The problem, however, with popular science is that it can introduce all kinds of...
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Do electronic limescale inhibitors work?
I’ve been intermittently toying with the idea of fitting an Anti-Limescale device to the water supply in our home. Today, with the delivery of a new phone book, I got a flyer describing a product...
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Nuclear Power: 'No Thanks' or 'Yes Please'?
For me, the arguments against nuclear power-plants in their current form are overwhelming; the most significant of these being the collapse of the “nuclear is clean” argument (because of the apparent...
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Two Nuclear Fallacies
Nuclear Energy is neither carbon-free, nor is it a secure energy, yet our government representatives appear to be drinking in everthing the Nuclear Industry offers them. This morning on the BBC’s...
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Schrödinger's Preening Booth
Schrödinger’s cat, bless it’s little white paws, had a pretty tough time of it; what with being locked in an imaginary box, and having to share that space with only a decaying radioactive isotope. At...
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That Ozone Seaside Smell
Picture this: it’s a sunny day at the seaside and you’re enjoying an icecream. The human predilection to follow scripted conversation formats is such that you cannot fail to overhear somebody...
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Astronauts: The Focused and The Fragile
If you’re going to do something where you have just one shot, then you have to get it right first time, there can be no deviation. This is a very different requirement to just getting it right every...
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Teabags and Sugar
When making a pot of tea, I tend to add teabags and sugar at the same time; once the tea has brewed, I give it a stir, remove the teabags, add milk, and then with the aid of a knitted tea-cosy I get...
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Open Science Coding
Portsmouth ICG alumnus David Parkinson recently wrote: One of these days I’m going to show my python code to someone who actually programs in python for a living. They’re going to laugh. Laugh and...
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