Today I was approached by STEMinist, a website which aims to show the world that there are women, great women, working in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths) subjects. They have asked me if I would like to take part…
Today has been a pretty monumental day for science. At around 06.30 (BST) NASA had their own Higgs-like event: the Curiosity Rover was safely guided to the surface of the planet Mars, and the world celebrated with the scientists who…
Now that I am a regular commuter on the train to Waterloo, I have the perfect opportunity to catch up on lost sleep, read a good book, and eavesdrop on other people’s conversations. My first week at work has coincided…
Five weeks ago I read a very distressed rant by Alice Sheppard concerning the levels of leers, whistles, and general sexual harassment that she was receiving whilst walking through London. It wasn’t that she was walking around looking for such…
On July 3rd I had the wonderful opportunity to chair a panel discussion at the Royal Society's Summer Science Exhibition. The discussion, A High Jump For Science, was about science and technology in sport; sport science is a discipline young…
Before the festival kicked off, the Cardiff Blogs asked me to write a teaser; a brief preview of the highlights that I think you should look out for during the week. Now that the festival is over, I have written…
A few weeks ago, I gave you a bit of a teaser about a demo I was planning for my Science of Swimming talk at the Cardiff Science Festival. Well, I'm pleased to say that the demos I used worked! Last Thursday I…
Jon Holt working his magic Maths, magic and a bit of of superstition is what got the audience laughing at this afternoon's So Random talk by Professor Jon Holt as part of the Cardiff Science Festival. Prof Holt is the…
The Cardiff Science Festival starts on Monday, and I still haven’t had the time to prepare. Thank goodness I have a week before my set. It's the first time that I will be standing in front of a group of people…
Like a true particle physics fan, before getting up to make a cup of tea this morning, I turned on my computer to watch the live webcast of the press conference at CERN. I am most definitely not an expert…
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