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If you can’t measure it, does it exist?

October 17, 2019 | Marcus | science, Uncategorised
If you can’t measure it, does it exist?

In the last couple of weeks, I’ve been busy preparing for our summer paper on Science Communication. Looking for something amusing about ‘risk’ in science, I came across this neat xkcd.com cartoon about why so many people come knocking on my door (or phoning me, or emailing me) desperately wanting me to spend hundreds of […]

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Measuring the temperature

February 22, 2019 | Marcus | science, Uncategorised
Measuring the temperature

I’ve just bought some thermometers, to use with a first-year physics class. A box of ten of them. Alcohol filled, which makes them a whole lot safer than the mercury ones. (If you have a mercury thermometer, my advice is never, ever break it, especially if it’s at home. I broke one at university a […]

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