Art & Science Talks
I’ve finally got confirmations from speakers on 4 talks I’m organising at Cranfield. This part of the residency ‘deal’ was such an easy thing to write on an application form but it actually takes a lot of time and effort to find a good balance of interesting people to come and speak. [...]
Pencil on Paper – it’s war
The results from the ESEM imaging (see previous post) were interesting, but a little adrift of my expectations.
Looking at the images the gentle process of marking paper with pencil is turned into something destructive. The paper clearly putting up a fight against the sharp point of the pencil, which in [...]
Looking closer, seeing less
Yesterday I had a 2 hour session with Matt Kershaw and TP with an Environmental Scanning Electron Microscope (ESEM) which can enable us to view up to x5000.
ESEMs focus a beam of electrons in a scanning motion over a sample placed in a sealed chamber. A vacuum is created in the chamber [...]
Art and Science Talk at Imperial
Yesterday I gave a talk to a bunch of post doc researchers at Imperial College. They were all scientists that had been and will be working with school children (ages 8-11) to enthuse about and teach science. The workshop was one of many organised by Wayne Mitchell (Cranfield Health) and [...]
Hacking printers, losing brain
It occurred to me today that I think it would be possible to misuse the networked printing system across the campus by outputting statements from the printers to the people that use them. Most people always look at what comes out as they wait for their print.
I wonder if I could access [...]
Purple Gloves
I know that having the chance to witness a nanoparticle experiment in the lab is a great opportunity to learn, so it’s probably not really OK to be dazzled by something as simple as a pair of very purple latex gloves.
More to follow…
(probably)
Very lovely gloves though.
“Are you really being serious? Taking it all in? [...]
Building 52a, Zone A1, Position 068
I have just moved to a new desk space on Cranfield campus. The new building is a glass addition to an old hanger style building, which there are a few of here as there is a private airport on-site. It’s very light and airy, standard grays with flashes of lime [...]
The cartoons are a-coming
I am finally getting somewhere with a set of nanoparticle cartoons.
Part of the residency is to create some form of online journal with tales from nanoparticles. Nanoparticle perspectives if you will. The idea is to communicate in a simple and humourous way about the change in a material’s properties when it is [...]
Secrets
There was a big gap between the eager start of this blog and then any further entries as I stumbled on the unexpected and the unwanted – the monsters of confidentiality and censorship. Breathe, two, three…
What happened was that it occurred to me whilst writing an entry about some VERY EXCITING and VERY EDGY [...]
Scientific Papers
I have been reading scientific papers for months. And there is no let up in sight, because once you start gaining the knowledge you want more and more and more…
Hey! “This science speak is very dense. Very tense. It’s very straight. It’s like a fence. We want to understand we want to try. [...]
