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An Ode to Mushroom Bag Man 26 Aug 2013 | 06:09 pm
You’ve seen him in the shops, hanging about in the vegetable aisles, dressed in brown and blue and etched with creases. His face is perpetually half-hidden by shadow, a top-teeth smile beckonin...
Book Q&A Meme 5 Aug 2013 | 06:16 pm
My good pal Laurie Steed asked if anyone would be interested in being tagged for a meme and I put my hand up so as to get this blog of mine kickstarted again (P.S. I’ll be making a new podcast this w...
SciencePod — Forcing the Issue 19 Jun 2013 | 04:36 pm
Image credit: Berkeley National Laboratory Newscentre This week’s episode is all about the image that you see above you: an amazing set of images taken using an atomic force microscope that show the a...
SciencePod — Curly Condundrum 31 May 2013 | 07:32 am
Photo Credit: User Chase N on flickr. On this episode of the pod, we take an in-depth look at the physics of, you guessed it, curling. Curling has been around for a while, invented by the Scots and ta...
SciencePod — Dem Bones 24 Apr 2013 | 02:17 pm
Photo Credit: The authors of the paper via the MIT Newsroom. On this episode of the pod, I apologise for being rather tardy over the last couple of weeks, before talking about the link between bones, ...
SciencePod — From Highways to the High Seas 31 Mar 2013 | 07:50 pm
On this week’s episode of the Tooth Soup Science Pod, the topic is animals and some fascinating evolutionary traits. First up we have cliff swallows whose adaptation to urban environments has seemingl...
Balance 29 Mar 2013 | 07:21 am
Hello. Hi there, it’s actually me this time, not just an update to do with science or pods or even casts. It’s been a while since I updated with something other than the droning buzz of my weekly fora...
SciencePod — Retaining Renewables 14 Mar 2013 | 06:58 pm
On this week’s episode of the TSSP, we’re talking about renewable energies. But this isn’t your typical gee-whiz talk about the technologies that enable renewable energy! Nope, in this episode we’...
SciencePod — Waste Not Want Not 3 Mar 2013 | 01:32 pm
Photo Credit: Eindhoven University of Technology/Bart van Overbeeke This week, we follow up the feasibility of some fuel-filled trees from a previous episode, and explore the wonderful world of plasti...
SciencePod — Stretching Our Mussels 18 Feb 2013 | 05:25 pm
Your main menu today includes two stories related to the humble mussel. The first has to do with the excellent binding properties of the fibres that mussels use to stick to every conceivable surface (...
