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Not So Elementary (the Cosmos, That Is)

Recently there are appeared a paper showing how Physics - Iron–Helium Compounds Form Under...

Carbon — to capture or not to capture

This came up on 2nd November 2024 (give or take a day), a broadcaster objecting to a carbon capture...

The Azolla Event: when is a fern not a fern?

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Betelgeuse, Gamow, and a Big Red Horse

There has been a lot of talk recently of Betelgeuse possibly going supernova this century or not...

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Until recently, I worked in the Polymer Physics Group of the Physics Department at the University of Reading.

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Blooming Botany (3B)

Blooming Botany (3B)

Jul 05 2011 | comment(s)


Botany: A Blooming History


The last episode of the series by Timothy Walker majored on the exploits of noble scientists whose aim was
Blooming Botany (3A)

Blooming Botany (3A)

Jul 02 2011 | comment(s)

Botany: A Blooming History


And now we come to part three of this series

Blooming Botany (1B)

Blooming Botany (1B)

Jul 01 2011 | comment(s)

Botany: A Blooming History


And now we return to part one of this series

Blooming Botany (2)

Blooming Botany (2)

Jun 24 2011 | comment(s)

Now we come to the second part of the series

Botany: A Blooming History


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Blooming Botany (1A)

Blooming Botany (1A)

Jun 18 2011 | comment(s)

When I was a teenager, my two scientific passions were astronomy and botany.  However, at my school in the early 1960s, one could either do A-levels in Mathematics - Physics - Chemistry (Science A) or Chemistry – Botany - Zoology (Science B).  I chose the former option, being very much put off by medicine which was more or less entailed with the latter.  Botany still is a scientific passion – if I were time-transported back to the Jurassic I would be eager to investigate the flora, leaving others of the party to keep a watch-out for dinosaurs.
Dante in the Scientific Inferno

Dante in the Scientific Inferno

Jun 13 2011 | comment(s)

The topic of Dante came up recently here in a comment stream following an article on parsley.  So I am taking this opportunity to share with you two of my favourite bits.

First, from Canto XVI of Paradiso