Nick Mitchener 🏳️🌈 🔭⚛️
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Retired CEO of engineering company now a physics technician in secondary education. IoP Technician award 2024. Clocks, scientific instruments , proper nerd. Ex sailor, ex mountaineer, ex fell walker, now arthritic and overweight! RSciTech MIntP He/him
Haven't gannet numbers plummeted with bird flu?
November 12, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Haven't gannet numbers plummeted with bird flu?
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That looks amazing
November 8, 2025 at 5:54 PM
That looks amazing
They get 15% of the income from the Crown Estates. We get 85%. That's 85% of around £1.3Bn that should pay for a few things but the NHS costs £188Bn a year so only a couple of days.
November 8, 2025 at 9:31 AM
They get 15% of the income from the Crown Estates. We get 85%. That's 85% of around £1.3Bn that should pay for a few things but the NHS costs £188Bn a year so only a couple of days.
Thank you that is very different to the text in the book itself.
I read an article by her sister.
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
I read an article by her sister.
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Remembering my sister Rosalind Franklin
Rosalind Franklin died of ovarian cancer in 1958 aged 37 years. Sympathy and feminism
have combined to give us her familiar image as a downtrodden woman scientist, brilliant
but neglected, a heroine t...
www.thelancet.com
November 8, 2025 at 9:11 AM
Thank you that is very different to the text in the book itself.
I read an article by her sister.
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
I read an article by her sister.
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
What are the references to Franklin about? What was sad n the epilogue and main text?
November 8, 2025 at 12:45 AM
What are the references to Franklin about? What was sad n the epilogue and main text?
I have a curie point one but it just releases a pendulum. I bought some iron wire to make a curie point rotor but have not got round to it yet.
November 2, 2025 at 4:47 PM
I have a curie point one but it just releases a pendulum. I bought some iron wire to make a curie point rotor but have not got round to it yet.
I have a nitinol one very similar to that. I always think a heat engine is thermodynamics, is that the right classification for nitinol?
November 2, 2025 at 4:29 PM
I have a nitinol one very similar to that. I always think a heat engine is thermodynamics, is that the right classification for nitinol?
I know about attwoods machine but not fletchers trolley
November 2, 2025 at 11:51 AM
I know about attwoods machine but not fletchers trolley
I never thought of Desega as his assistant but as a technician. We provide technical support, we are not assistants. I work in a school, but still get to make equipment and design experiments, nothing like as much as in Universities.
November 2, 2025 at 12:03 AM
I never thought of Desega as his assistant but as a technician. We provide technical support, we are not assistants. I work in a school, but still get to make equipment and design experiments, nothing like as much as in Universities.
It was his technician who did the work, based on the design by Faraday (another technician :)
November 1, 2025 at 11:22 AM
It was his technician who did the work, based on the design by Faraday (another technician :)