Category Archives: Science

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge

Posted on November 29, 2013 by Barbara

This week’s Foto Challenge asks for pictures of numbers and letters.  My first post in this challenge wasn’t a number, but a picture of four thistles, being the fourth challenge in the number series. 

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Layers

Posted on November 15, 2013 by Barbara

This week’s Weekly Photo challenge is called Layers, and I can not resist posting some pictures of the biggest layers I have ever seen!

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Weekly Photo Challenge: The sign says

Posted on June 6, 2013 by Barbara

Somebody at WordPress really has been trawling through my physics photos, as yet again I find myself able to respond to this weeks Weekly Photo Challenge with photos from Cern! The challenge announced last Friday is ‘The Sign Says‘ When … Continue reading →

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Patterns in Science

Posted on May 13, 2013 by Barbara

This weeks Weekly Photo Challenge is Pattern. I love finding patterns in things.  When I was in University we went to CERN in Switzerland to see the ATLAS particle detector in the Large Hadron Collider and I found lots of … Continue reading →

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Prompts for the Promptless – Ep. 6 – Counterintuition

Posted on March 27, 2013 by Barbara

What more can I say?

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Weekly Photo Challenge; Resolved

Posted on January 6, 2013 by Barbara

Why is it, that when I see the word resolve I think Vectors and Trigonometry Resolving vectors – The figure above illustrates vector resolution by components. In the first example, a boat crosses a river without compensating for the current. … Continue reading →

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Weekly Photo Challenge; Delicate Nanoscale work at Royal Holloway in the Clean Room

Posted on December 16, 2012 by Barbara

I love fiddly jobs, i like when i have to mend things invisibly, sometimes I think I should have been called Cinderella.  When I have to sort out hundreds of multicoloured beads into their individual colours, I don’t dread the … Continue reading →

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Daily Prompt; Flawed

Posted on December 13, 2012 by Barbara

With the absence of the Weekly Photo Challenge (7.13pm GMT) yet I am quickly suffering from withdrawal symptoms, and hence am having a go instead at the appropriately timed Daily Prompt; Flawed. The prompt suggested by Michelle W, asks what … Continue reading →

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Travel Theme; Circles – Royal Holloway University through a Crystal Ball

Posted on December 12, 2012 by Barbara

Some of my best memories from Royal Holloway University were in the summer between exams when we were all able to sit out in the sun in the Quadrants in the centre of the original building. ; On one of … Continue reading →

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Weekly Photo Challenge; Changing Seasons Royal Holloway University of London, Surrey

Posted on December 10, 2012 by Barbara

I have found this challenge quite difficult, because I have wanted to show photos of the same place in different seasons, and apart from my back garden, I have hardly any photos of the same place from the same angles … Continue reading →

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