@ColinTheMathmo - the magazine article is completely misleading; many quasiparticles can be found in chunks of matter designed to have interesting properties, but they aren't *elementary* particles and this could not "account for dark matter".
If you're not familiar with quasiparticles, try this:
Today I learning that Ingenuity, the helicopter on Mars, carries a piece of fabric from the wing of the 1903 Wright Flyer, the Wright Brothers' airplane used in the first controlled powered heavier-than-air flight on Earth.
If you're ever looking to watch a random #documentary, I can highly recommend the BBC Horizon collection on Archive.org which has over 500 episodes spanning a large part of #BBCHorizon's aired episodes from 1964 to 2014; that's 50 years of snapshots of explorations of the scientific views of its time.
You can either download the entire archive, or instantly watch individual episodes.
#BBC #Horizon #SeriesFiXatoWatches #FiXatoRecommends #documentaries
The Russian embassy in Lithuania now resides in "Ukrainian Heros Street", after the Lithuanian government decided to rename its street
First time trying a sashiko-type embroidery on my broken jeans. I like them even more than I did before I ripped them!
Those who refuse to use standard user interface elements are doomed to re-implement them poorly.
@rysiek I've found that adding some humor and taking an approach to writing a 'bathroom reader' makes both reading and writing actually fun and more interesting.
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
Arthur C. Clarke
"Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced."
Barry Gehm
"Any technology, no matter how primitive, is magic to those who don’t understand it."
Florence Ambrose (Freefall, Stanley)
"It’s still magic even if you know how it’s done."
Terry Pratchett
@christianp If you don't flip through all of your slides, you might get disqualified!
Fulltime freelance provider of outreach and enhancement in maths ... I talk a lot. About maths.
I talk about other stuff too, like ballroom dancing, juggling, unicycling, education, engineering, software, and "other things".
But mostly about maths.
I tend to follow back, but only if you have something in your profile.