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Notes from an American Road Trip

18th October 2023 Patrick Barron 2989 Comments

My wife and I recently drove just shy of three thousand miles to see friends and family in the American Midwest. We started just outside Philadelphia, located in the southeast corner of Pennsylvania on America’s [more…]

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Playing With Light

30th January 2023 Doc Mike Finnley 2059 Comments

Science, like a sport, is an art that’s well practised. To lose educates you more than to win instantly. Okay, that’s corny but I’ve found that my project failures have taught me more information and [more…]

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How MRI Works

19th December 2022 Going Postal 2777 Comments

I guess quite a few of you will have had to undergo a Magnetic Resonance Imaging scan over the past few years.  As you lie in the machine’s tube with headphones on to muffle the [more…]

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The Pocket Calculator

27th September 2022 Doc Mike Finnley 3364 Comments

Introduction Some of you may know that the Doc has been ill after falling off of a ladder. A very bad accident and I was lucky not to break anything (other than my confidence at [more…]

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Three Gyroscopes – Part 4

16th February 2022 Doc Mike Finnley 2318 Comments

Introduction As a child I loved playing about with magnets – I still do. They can move heavy objects – such as lifting cars at a scrap yard. They can also move light (-weight!) objects [more…]

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Three Gyroscopes – Part 3

3rd February 2022 Doc Mike Finnley 3748 Comments

Introduction In part one we looked at how a gyroscope seems to defy gravity. This is accomplished by angular momentum. We’ll come back to that later 🙂 In part two we looked at how a [more…]

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Snowflakes

24th January 2022 OldTrout 3827 Comments

I have always loved snowflakes.  On a chairlift, with your head down into a biting wind, one is allowed about twenty minutes to study them settling on your clothes. They have two classes of symmetry; [more…]

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‘Twas the Night before Christmas………..53 years ago

24th December 2021 Going Postal 3245 Comments

Placing the spacecraft in lunar orbit had not been easy. Compounding the difficulty, the engine firing, which would put the spacecraft in the right spot, had to happen while the spacecraft was out of contact [more…]

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Three Gyroscopes – Part 2

20th December 2021 Doc Mike Finnley 3656 Comments

Introduction The “flat earth” people like to disseminate their woeful ideas. Therefore, let us spend some little time to think about the earth that we all live upon. In particular its spherical (well, almost) shape [more…]

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