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.

Friday, 23 November 2018

Dear Prudence

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I notice that it was 50 years ago yesterday that the Beatles White Album was released, so here is one of my favourite tracks from it:

Thursday, 22 November 2018

Croydon's pneumatic railway

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I had some time to kill in Croydon the other day, and went into Croydon Musuem, which contains artefacts and exhibits spanning ...

Thursday, 8 November 2018

Scientists in da house

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The internet is awash with commentary on the car crash that is American politics right now, thanks to its embarrassing and dangerous cl...

Wednesday, 7 November 2018

Lise Meitner at 140

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Just over a week ago I missed commenting on the 50th anniversary of the death of Lise Meitner. She died on 27th October 1968. Fortunately...

Tuesday, 6 November 2018

Lewis Carroll in Guildford

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I was at a 5-year-old's birthday party on Sunday (along with my own 5-year-old, of course) up a street in Guildford called The Mou...

Monday, 5 November 2018

per second per second

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I started reading James Joyce's Ulysses yesterday, on the flight home from the COMEX6 conference. I'm not quite sure what I was ex...

Friday, 2 November 2018

COMEX6: Days 2-5

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After writing a post following the first day of the COMEX6 conference, I've not given a day-by-day account, and now the conference is...

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