How glow sticks work. It’s quite handy that I happened to write my dissertation, way back in 2003, on the subject of luminescence since that’s what we’re talking about. Unfortunately, I can’t find my dissertation or my OHP slides – yes we were still using overhead projectors at Durham University in the early 2000’s – so I’ve actually had to look things up, mostly Jablonski diagrams. I had a really good one that I used for my dissertation, but like I said, I can’t find them.
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Home at last
I’ve only been away overnight but it’s nice to be home, snuggling with my doggies. I had a lovely couple of days in Harrogate with my friends. Continue reading “Home at last”
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Benefits: Not Every Claimant is a Jeremy Kyle Pantomime Villain
Why Your Brain is a Total Jerk…
Photo post by @TheaBeckman.
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My brain is most definitely a total jerk, especially when I’m exhausted and it insists on chattering away all night.
Witch-hunt Part 2: Jeremy Corbyn and the Cenotaph
Why I wouldn’t support a state-funded Pagan school
I have similar problems with faith and free schools, but in this post they’re articulated much better than I would be able to.
Imperial Wars and Spiritual Costs
Dear liberals: please stop derailing things about protest by ~condemning the violence~
Apparently someone gobbed at a journalist yesterday. And a Tory got some egg on him.
Oh, and there was a protest where 60,000 people protested the Tory choices which are literally killing people.
One would think that that would be the thing to focus on, really, but apparently it’s more important to discuss that there was some saliva in a bloke’s hair. And condemn it.
Falling over themselves to show off how respectable they are, liberals have surged to bang on about how it’s Very Bad That There Was Violence, because that means It’s All That Anyone Will Talk About And The Messages Will Be Lost. And they’re partially right. The messages are being lost. Precisely because liberals are rushing to distance themselves from a very minor incident.
We could talk about how things are so bad the UN is investigating Britain’s treatment of disabled people, that fitness to work assessments
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