Tag: amateur science
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Mucor Mould Magnification
The USB Microscope has been very handy indeed: NOW EVERY CASE OF FOOD SPOILAGE CAN BE TURNED INTO AN INSTANT […]
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Scientific Illustrations for the Blind (Natural History Museum, London, Jan 2014)
In the last few months I’ve gotten quite interested in scientific illustration and scientific models. Just as I am fascinated […]
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Scientific and Mathematical Teaching Models at the Whipple Museum (Cambridge, Feb 2014)
Whilst trudging through Cambridge the other day, we stumbled across the small but very entertaining Whipple Museum in Cambridge University, […]
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Unusual Materials – Rochelle Salt, Thermoplastic Starch
Rochelle Salt (Piezo Crystal) Sometime ago my classmate Naama tipped me off to how easy it was to grow piezo […]
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Peltier Tiles and Toroid Beads
Producing a small current from a Peltier Tile Recently I purchased some Peltier tiles from ebay. A Peltier device is […]
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Potato Battery and Lasagna Cell
Today I decided to do a preliminary experiment to see how difficult it would be to build a potato battery […]