I am an avid user of Markdown via Mou and R Markdown (with RStudio). The facility that the iPython Notebook offers in combining code and text to be rendered in an interactive webpage is the… Read More »Markup for Fast Data Science Publication – Reblog
2015 has been declared the International Year of Light (IYL 2015) and with me being an optics geek, well, it was difficult to resist to enter a post about it. The IYL 2015 is a… Read More »2015 – International Year of Light
I know it is a bit late, but with the moving of the blog and all that jazz, I did not have time to post this earlier. This is a video taken by Bob Forrest,… Read More »March 2015 Total Solar Eclipse
I am a geek, and proudly so, and as such I have been known to visit exhibitions at the excellent Natural History Museum and the Science Museum in London, the Field Museum in Chicago, or… Read More »Shelf Life – A great project at the American Museum of Natural History
Chris Hadfield is speaking at the Royal Geographical Society in London as part of the Guardian Live events. I managed to get a couple of great seats to hear him speak about his book “You… Read More »Chris Hadfield event at the Royal Geographical Society
Listening to the Science Magazine podcast I found out that the black hole depiction (or its effects rather) as shown in the latest film by Christopher Nolan, Interstellar, used the expertise of physicists to create… Read More »Black holes, gravity and film – Depicting gravitational lensing in Interstellar
Hello everybody, I am very pleased to have received a question from two people I know very well Martin del Campo and Gaby R. They have contacted Quantum Tunnel with the following question: Breit and… Read More »Quantum Tunnel Answers: Turning light into matter
Hello everyone, once again we have a question coming to the inbox of the Quantum Tunnel blog. If you are interested in asking a question, please feel free to get in touch using this page.… Read More »Quantum Tunnel Answers: Fresnel Lens
This time is not really a question that has arrived to the Quantum Tunnel mailbox, it is rather an observation and some cheers. Let’s take a look: Dear Quantum Tunnel, I have listened to all… Read More »Quantum Tunnel Answers – Interest in Quantum Physics
