I'd always considered myself as having green eyes, yet Tereza keeps saying I have blue eyes, and after I object that my eyes bear no resemblance to those of Swedish blondes she usually settles on blue-gray. So, to settle the debate, I turned to the usual arbitrator - Wikipedia. There's a great article on eye colour; explaining that the predominant ( Read more... )

Ever wondered about who the type of people are who have enough time in their life to write Wikipedia articles? Well just take a look at this photo. Need I say more? Other than this is how you can meet these people. :-)

I've grouped my holiday photos from Cyprus into:

• Paphos Life - most of our time was spent staying at Tereza's parents' home, our base to explore Tereza's home town of Paphos and the surrounding regions.


• Old Lefkosia - photos from our day exploring the old town of Cyprus' capital, Lefkosia. There, in the evening, we met up with Tereza's local friends ( Read more... )

We're being thrown out of our flat again!

:-(

I seem to be spending my entire life flat hunting and moving (and dealing with all the consequences of setting up a new flat that has a multitude of new problems including a lack of all the furniture you need). Just as soon as I have a chance to sit down, relax, and start writing blog entries again, I ( Read more... )

If 2005 was the year of moving for me (having started the year at my Parents following my PhD, I moved to Winchester in January, and then from July I moved between three different flats in Edinburgh), then 2006 was certainly my year of travel. Last year I travelled further North, South, East and West than I've been before. In March I endured a 20 ( Read more... )

This evening I made my annual trip to an Edinburgh Science Festival talk (a much shorter trip, and with Eric this time). Like last year I chose to attend just one talk by a pioneer in a very specialist field. This time it was the turn of Willem Toet - head of aerodynamics for the BMW F1 Team. In the world of Formula One he's generally recognised as ( Read more... )

Seminars will never be the same thanks to www.phdcomics.com


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Yesterday we finally got around to paying the Surgeon's Hall Museums a visit. Despite being our closest museum, it's normally only open just for a few hours on weekdays, so the weekend opening this Easter was our first chance to pay the museum a visit. It's a fascinating place which will warrant many more visits - it's a shame it's one of the few ( Read more... )

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Help us astronomers to save the night sky! :-)

Sign this petition:

http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/starry-night/