I don’t know how they found out about it but someone at Uni today showed me this rather funny Google Maps result. Ask for directions from somewhere in the USA to somewhere in Europe and you are told how to do it, without flying. I searched for Cardiff to New…

The video above is the live feed from justin.tv an experiment in web video created by Justin, the star of the ’show’ and three of his friends.

In an effort to start up a video streaming company they decided to prove how easy it was to broadcast live video to the…

In last week’s lab we had some more fun with liquid nitrogen. This time we used it to cool a ceramic superconductor (i.e. not a metal one) and then floated a magnet on top of it. The result in shown in the image above.

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I listen to a lot of music. On my iPod and on my laptop you will find a vast array of recently played tracks in one playlist (smart or otherwise) or another. My tastes are usually somewhere between formerly-mainstream, alternative and American soft rock. However I also like a few…

I don’t speak Welsh but assume this says something like ‘daffodil that was frozen in nitrogen and then crushed during first year physics lab’. I know that because I crushed and froze it myself and this photo was taken by one…

Just a quick reminder to look our for tomorrow’s total lunar eclipse. Its starts at around 9.30pm with totality from 10.45pm to midnight (approx). For more info see my original post.