Blog of the Isotopes

All about nuclear physics - research, news and comment. The author is Prof Paul Stevenson - a researcher in nuclear physics in the UK. Sometimes the posts are a little tangential to nuclear physics.

Thursday, 17 March 2016

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The picture associated with this post shows the envelope I sent off earlier this week containing my completed crossword grid for their w...

Thursday, 10 March 2016

Paul Greenlees on YouTube

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I came across this, via Facebook: A nuclear physicist talks on YouTube about what he does. I share it via this blog

Monday, 7 March 2016

Let's Twist Again

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I started reading Oliver Twist while waiting at Clapham Junction for a train yesterday. I came across this nice slyly-observed paragraph ...

Friday, 4 March 2016

World Book Day

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It was World Book Day yesterday. It seems, for parents of school-aged children in the UK, to have turned into an annual ritual whereby ...

Friday, 26 February 2016

Physics English

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I am rather spoiled by the fact that English is the, um, lingua franca , of the scientific world. My competence at foreign languages ex...

Friday, 19 February 2016

A Mental Health App for Students

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I received an email from the mental health charity, Mind, yesterday. It asks if I am a student, or I could spread the word about their ne...

Monday, 8 February 2016

Second prize in a beauty contest

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Sometimes I repost news here concerning my employers, the University of Surrey, especially when it relates to things of interest to the ...

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