| Jon Butterworth: Moving home Life and Physics has a new home and hopefully some new readers. What might you expect to see here?Without wishing to sound like a breathless press release, I am pretty excited to have a space to write on the Guardian website.I have been blogging since the beginning of the year. I was very involved in the science and the media coverage surrounding the start-ups (both of them...) of the Large Hadron Collider. I am a Professor of Physics at UCL where I teach, and carry out my research on the ATLAS experiment. I write here on my own behalf though.The "Life" bit doesn't mean I am a biophysicist, sorry if that disappoints. It's life in the "Life, the Universe and Everything" sense. The main idea of the blog was to provide some follow-up information for those people whose imagination and/or interest was caught by the LHC. Part of the same idea was the Colliding Particles films by Mike Paterson, and in fact my first blog post was written to explain some of the physics behind these films.So the LHC reports will continue. However, I also stray into other physics, science policy and other areas. The subtitle of the blog on wordpress is "Making it up as I go along" and that still applies. I hope you'll want to come along too.If you want to know a bit more, after a recent discussion on science blogging I wrote a post which says some more about why I write. There'll be guest bloggers too sometimes.Jon Butterworthguardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2010 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds guardian.co.uk |
MP: Small towns to get high-speed internet The Member for Eden-Monaro, Mike Kelly, has guaranteed that small towns in the New South Wales south east will be included in the National Broadband Network. abc.net.au |
Union airs CSIRO job loss fears Staff at some of CSIRO's regional laboratories are reported to be facing job cuts. abc.net.au |
Rocket with US-Russian crew blasts off By NATALIYA VASILYEVA 2010-10-08T16:51:55ZBAIKONUR, Kazakhstan (AP) -- A Russian rocket with a U.S. astronaut and two Russian cosmonauts onboard blasted off successfully early Friday for the International Space Station, with flame-haired Russian spy Anna Chapman making an unexpected appearance at the cosmodrome to wave them goodbye.... hosted.ap.org |
Mystery Bird: European Greenfinch, Carduelis chloris This common European mystery bird is a popular avicultural subject and has several color variants that are propagated in captivityEuropean greenfinch, Carduelis chloris (formerly; Chloris chloris), also known as the greenfinch, photographed at Harlech, Gwynedd, west Wales, UK. Image: Brian Pendleton, 21 June 2010 [with binoculars].Embedded below is the song and in-flight call of the greenfinch, thanks to British Garden Birds:European greenfinch song:European greenfinch flight call: If you have bird images, video or mp3 files that you'd like to share with a large and appreciate audience, feel free to email them to me for consideration.GrrlScientistguardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2010 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds guardian.co.uk |