Here is a short list of accidents that involve civilians being exposed to ionising radiation before the year 2000. Why did I stop there? The list was getting too long and too repetitive. And that is really concerning!
Category Archives: Blog
On the arrogance of physicists
Physics teachers can look like people whose whole raison d’etre is to catch young people out and proclaim, “ah ha, you were wrong!” In a way, that is precisely what we do.
No valuables left overnight
This is a post full of pictures of how I built my hut
What a waste of space
I could have got 42% more bauble if they were stacked differently
Leslie’s Cube
There is more to surface emissivity than just colour and shininess. When using a good quality infrared thermal camera, there is usually an option to correct the temperature scale for the surface emissivity, from 0 to 1.
Laptop cooling systems? Not a big fan!
My new laptop CPU fan arrived today, and so I thought it’d be fun to ask ChatGPT to write an interesting blog post about laptop fans. The post in full is below.
My first school report, 1989
His poor coordination leads him to dislike many activities in PE.
The five best things about being a physics teacher
Why do I look forward to Monday mornings?
The problem with observation
The act of making a measurement changes the measurement being made.
Issues with Casio calculators
Why do I dislike Casio calculators? Watch this video for a few of the reasons!
