Statto’s shorts
My microblog. Syndicated on Twitter and Facebook, but best served in your RSS reader because Twitter and Facebook don’t support proper links and formatting.
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Just got filmed as I exploded a balloon full of hydrogen in front of a thermal camera! Video shortly.
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@jjsanderson Ah, I was who was responsible for the super-bright thing in the background my the thermal portrait of me and my girlfriend!
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I just saw a real human placenta. Didn’t look that tasty…
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Dear BT wireless, It is not a fucking ‘OpenZone’ if it costs £5.99 per 90 minutes. Yours sincerely, Statto.
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Bit slow on the uptake on this because I’ve been science outreaching, but nerds say LHC 7 TeV thing isn’t big news either.
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Me and a superconductor at −196°C, floating above neodymium magnets, taken with a thermal camera.

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Finally in an apartment in Manchester. Today took longer than I thought!
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CERN nerds: Brian Cox says scheduled maintenance isn’t news. Is the fact that the first cycle will only be at 7 TeV news?
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Hydrogen and liquid nitrogen ready for our Accelerate! particle physics outreach show at The Big Bang Fair with Suzie and Rosalind.
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Farmville has more users than Twitter…but try telling the media that.
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Is ‘there are no axioms’ itself an axiom, and therefore self-refuting? Does it matter what type of system you are trying to formalise?
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@TimHarford Ha ha, yes, that’s why I followed you. (Also enjoyed your book!) I once got 5,000 Web hits thanks to a badscience.net comment…
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Gosh, I hadn’t realised there were so many of these.
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@grabcocque I wouldn’t quite go that far! But some of the simplifications and omissions were daft. Room for a lot more science in there.
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Just had a good moan about Wonders of the Solar System at coffee. Visual spectacle but thin on science. Any chance of a dub for geeks, Brian?
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Monday photograph: evening autumn light in olde Manhattan.
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More Cherwell science: what how physicists talk can tell us about how they think.
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Please say this is a spoof. Near-satirical traditionalism, plus moron celebrity curriculum advisers. Susan Greenfield? Prince fucking Charles?!
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Favourite part of today so far: watching a fully-grown man hide under his desk because he heard a PhD student coming to ask him a question.








