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Instructions for the citizen scientist.

Tuesday, 7 January 2014

The Doppler Effect

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You know that noise a siren makes as it goes whizzing past atop of an ambulance or police car? As it approaches you the pitch of the siren c...
Saturday, 4 January 2014

Garlic Challenge, the results show!

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In my last post I posed a question: Does rubbing your hands on stainless steel gets rid of garlic smells? There's clearly plenty who bel...
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Tuesday, 15 October 2013

Does stainless steel get rid of garlic smells?

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This morning a tweet caught my eye OK a chemistry question for @FunSizeSuze stainless steel seems to get rid of garlic odour from hands, ...
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Tuesday, 3 September 2013

The Underground Map of the Elements

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If anyone wants a high res copy feel free to download it here . Full story over at the Guardian. And now available in mousemat, poste...
Sunday, 28 July 2013

How to turn chlorophyll red

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What colour is chlorophyll? Obviously its green. After all chlorophyll is the pigment in leaves that absorbs the Sun's rays in the first...
Saturday, 29 June 2013

Dear all, it's a parody.

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My Guardian post is meant as a parody of the Buzzfeeds article that I linked to at the top of the piece. I thought it was explicit enough ...
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Sunday, 23 June 2013

Fancy some uranium?

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Now, how about that uranium! You can get hold of it really quite easily and better still it really does glow in the dark! I'm actua...
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