Tag Archives: DESY

Survival of those that Fit

Posted on 09/06/2010 by Jon Butterworth

See also Chapter 3.6 of Smashing Physics. I noticed the other day that suddenly more people were looking at my blog. So it goes – Wordpress give you lots of cool graphs to obsess over. However, that particular demon is a mere … Continue reading →

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The Spiegelei Incident

Posted on 30/05/2010 by Jon Butterworth

Ah! the Eurovision cheers from Hamburg… And a  song with physics in the lyric wins. Having had my brain melted by the whole thing (see twitter stream…) I think I am now infatuated with a 19-year old German with a … Continue reading →

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This is Not a Drill

Posted on 18/04/2010 by Jon Butterworth

See also Chapter 3.2 of Smashing Physics. I haven’t been paying as much attention as I should to science policy in the election. Guilty, will re-engage. I have a good excuse, of course. Even after STFC cuts we’re still members … Continue reading →

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Frog Chorus

Posted on 03/04/2010 by Jon Butterworth

See also Chapter 3.6 of Smashing Physics. Last week, on the day we got our first 7 TeV collisions at the Large Hadron Collider, quite by chance we also had the conference dinner of the annual meeting of the Institute … Continue reading →

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