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Grow a pair, Australia
I’m fed up with all the misinformation going around in Australia about the carbon tax. Here’s a few short points you need to know about carbon reduction in Australia. Australia is not ‘going it alone’...
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But it’s my first day!
I’m doing my first full day of my work placement today. I’ll be at the Science Museum working with Lotto Labs, and the job over the next couple of days will be to prepare for the upcoming Science...
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Lottolab Lates – I want a Soundwall in MY room
Last night at the Science Museum lates, Lottolab took the art-science collaboration a step further than they’ve tried before. The star attraction was the soundwall, a 77-speaker array on which a...
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The horrors of scientific analysis, part 2: Ferocious FM-TOX
Let’s go back to a dark and stormy night in 1938, when a white-coated man took up a scalpel. Now, this is chilling, but true*: he raised the flashing blade and brought it down on a squirming rat. The...
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Science Nation Army
Shooting and editing this – especially constructing the audio from scratch, while the tireless Ben did the visuals – went from fun, to tedious, to painful. It was worth it though. If you click on...
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Climate skeptics: whoa. Just whoa.
Let’s start with some racism: Bangladeshis suffer because they have failed to understand the basic things that make an economy work to better their lives. General hate: People like McKibben are...
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Tooth Fairy Palaces and Ivory Towers
OK, so I didn’t get my choice of title on the article. But here’s a taste: Sara and Gina are collecting baby teeth, to build a palace. Gina: “The experiment has gone so far, without even being made,...
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I get Tentacled
The infamous Ed and Jake invited me on to their tremendous, terrific Tomorrow’s Tentacles radio show yesterday. After hearing about death, space and yet more of Jake’s worms, I had a chat about...
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Today’s Youtube Empires, Tomorrow’s Hollywood Ashes
Charlie’s a star. Here’s Charlie, talking about stars. A million people, roughly, have seen Charlie talking about stars. He’s got two-thirds as many followers on Twitter as Brian Cox, the physicist...
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Smoke, mirrors and mazes
Let’s start with eye candy. This is an image looking over the balcony from the top floor of the Science Museum’s Wellcome Wing. The seemingly perfect positioning of the security guard caught my eye....
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