Science and Art

Last weekend while I was down in London, I managed to go down to Burlington House to have a look at the Carbon Rapture exhibition in thecourtyard.   A graphite electrode, a huge model of Buckminster Fullerene (C60) and a giant pyramid of diamond dominate the courtyard.    The diamond model is in fact the largest model of diamond [...]

Online Science Communication – A Comparison

After making a comment on twitter yesterday during science online London 2009:

interesting in general to note differences between #solo09 and North Carolina back in January

I was asked to expand on this and perhaps explain the differences that I noticed.  Firstly a disclaimer, it is quite difficult to compare a one day conference (as I experienced solo09) [...]

Science Online London 2009

I’m on the train home after a very long day in London.  Last year this was more a science blogging conference with a sprinkling of open notebook science and open access and related publishing stuff.  This year the scope had been broadened to include all online science communication.  I suspect that as well as broadening the [...]

24 hours to go!

I’m off to London tomorrow, to Science Online London 2009 at the Royal Institution.  Despite having to travel there and back in one day (getting up at 5 am), I’m looking forward to it.  The Programme looks great, but I’m going to have to find time to run down to Burlington House to see the Carbon [...]