While I was in Dresden, in Germany, I read a leaflet given out by the Dresden tourist office. Most of it was understandably focused towards the main tourist sites of Dresden, but they included a nice little bit describing Dresden industry. The area is of course famous for its porcelain (the first produced in Europe […]

I won’t bore you with the details of the conference I’ve been at in Dresden, but I will mention this. As an example of a complex network, one of the speakers showed a little animation of movement of commercial aircraft across Europe. The animation consisted of a map of europe, with little dots showing the […]

What would you pay to know the time? Probably nothing. But go back a couple of hundred years, and people made a living out of selling the time. They would own a particularly high quality watch, and every morning they would go up to Greenwich and set it to exactly Greenwich Mean Time (simply the […]

Here’s another aeroplane blog entry. I noted at Gatwick Airport in London that a well-known budget airline was proudly saying that there was no weight limit on cabin baggage – all it had to do was be less than a certain size – "If it fits in the box – it goes on the plane", […]

Physicsstop entries may slow down for three or so weeks, as I do a bit of travelling, but please be reassured that I haven’t forgotten you.