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2015–16: The Year in Numbers
Picture, if you will, the Think Physics office. A group of lackadaisical academics loafing around, leafing through the occasional paper while enjoying copiously long tea breaks, interrupted only by the...
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Calendar updates
If you’ve not visited our calendar of upcoming events recently, now would be a good time. We’ve added a bunch of stuff for the term ahead, from ourselves and others. Right now, we’re taking bookings...
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Poetry and Science
Today is National Poetry Day, and across the land people have been posting poems. At Think Physics, we’re doing our bit for poetry too, though our Imagining the Sun project. ‘Imagining the Sun’ brings...
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The Amazingly Enormous STEM Careers Poster
Here’s a neat resource from the terrific folks behind the globe-spanning celebration of the achievements of women in STEM which is Ada Lovelace Day: the aptly-named “Amazingly Enormous STEM Careers...
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Maker Faire UK 2017 announced
It’s baaa-aaaaack! The greatest show (and tell) on Earth is returning to Newcastle with Maker Faire UK 2017, April 1st-2nd. It’s the biggest, loudest, most ridiculous and longest-running event of its...
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New competition for secondaries: Microsoft STEM Student Challenge
I know, I know – the education world is awash with competitions. Stick with it, this one’s a little different and it looks like it could be genuinely fun… and also smart. Microsoft Research in...
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See you this week? Timandra Harkness on Big Data and SUN at Life
This week we’ve not one but two outstanding opportunities to get your dose of fascinating, curious and very-slightly-sideways science: On Thursday, broadcaster, writer and comedian Timandra Harkness...
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Work with us! Ogden Science Officer vacancy with the Think Physics team
We’re recruiting! If you’re of a physics sort of persuasion (other physical sciences count!), can hold your own in a careers discussion, and look at the prospect of writing and delivering workshops for...
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It’s 2017, the year the Sun goes out
Happy New Year! We hope you’re still flattened under the burden of gifts and groaning with the tonnage of mince pies you’ve consumed, but let’s get straight to the important stuff: this year, the Sun...
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Connecting with Physics
When I did my A-levels a couple of decades ago, there were only two or three girls in my physics class. The situation has got a little better since then, but many girls still find they are in a...
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Astronauts, sports scholarships, the web, deforestation, and the power of...
Here’s a delightful little story from web developer Sarah Mei, posted on Twitter. It starts out being about American university sports scholarships, but heads off in directions you’re really not going...
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(Raspberry) Pioneers, Bright Ideas: opportunities for secondary students
The lovely people at the Raspberry Pi Foundation – the folks who spend the money made from selling all those zillions of credit-card sized computers – have launched their programme for 12-15...
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125,000 rpm centrifuge… powered by hand, made from cardboard
This is outstanding! One of the first steps in a whole host of blood tests which might be used for medical diagnosis is to ‘spin down’ the sample – to bung it in a high-speed centrifuge and whirl it...
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Maker Faire UK 2017 announced
It’s baaa-aaaaack! The greatest show (and tell) on Earth is returning to Newcastle with Maker Faire UK 2017, April 1st-2nd. It’s the biggest, loudest, most ridiculous and longest-running event of its...
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New competition for secondaries: Microsoft STEM Student Challenge
I know, I know – the education world is awash with competitions. Stick with it, this one’s a little different and it looks like it could be genuinely fun… and also smart. Microsoft Research in...
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See you this week? Timandra Harkness on Big Data and SUN at Life
This week we’ve not one but two outstanding opportunities to get your dose of fascinating, curious and very-slightly-sideways science: On Thursday, broadcaster, writer and comedian Timandra Harkness...
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Work with us! Ogden Science Officer vacancy with the Think Physics team
We’re recruiting! If you’re of a physics sort of persuasion (other physical sciences count!), can hold your own in a careers discussion, and look at the prospect of writing and delivering workshops for...
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It’s 2017, the year the Sun goes out
Happy New Year! We hope you’re still flattened under the burden of gifts and groaning with the tonnage of mince pies you’ve consumed, but let’s get straight to the important stuff: this year, the Sun...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Connecting with Physics
When I did my A-levels a couple of decades ago, there were only two or three girls in my physics class. The situation has got a little better since then, but many girls still find they are in a...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Astronauts, sports scholarships, the web, deforestation, and the power of...
Here’s a delightful little story from web developer Sarah Mei, posted on Twitter. It starts out being about American university sports scholarships, but heads off in directions you’re really not going...
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