What Are Volcanoes?
Reproduced with permission from the neOnbubble Know You Some Science series of student learning guides. What Are Volcanoes? A volcano is a special type of mountain so to understand what a volcano is we must first determine what a mountain is. What Is A Mountain? Some scientists believe that these can be made out of molehills but those sandwiches in the fridge were clearly marked as mine and I don’t think it’s unreasonable of me to scream about it in the cafeteria at lunch time; I was very hungry; I had been sciencing all morning without a break. However, mountains are really a special type of hill so to understand what a mountain is we must first determine what a hill is. What Is A Hill? A hill is a raised area of land on the ground. If you needed to be told this then you probably don’t know what the ground is either. On we go. What Is Ground? Coffee beans are ground. The aromas released during this process are to die for and sometimes this very process is more pleasurable than the consumption of the hot drink itself. I like a nice, full-flavoured coffee and find the lighter bean variants can be a little too bitter. I have similar tastes when it comes to wine and real ale too; dark, heavy, not bitter. Now you know what to buy me when you bump into me at the Sciencorium. What Is The Sciencorium? The Sciencorium is where we sciencercise all day long, sciencing up things for all of mankind. Just last week I scienced an invisible ray. I’ve no idea what to do with it yet so it’s sharing a shallow pool with the invisible flounder and the invisible dogfish (I think) but that’s not the point; sciencing is about whether you can do something, not about whether you should or what benefit it might possibly have. Anyone who tells you different is a hippy. What Is A Hippy? A hippy (short for hippopotalayabout, from the ancient Greek for “does nothing, eats like a horse”) is an inhabitant of San Diego, birthplace of the atomic bomb. Hippies don’t like working or sciencing but they do like marijuana and this evil drug tells its addictees to complain about everything using placards and body odour. What Is Body Odour? The human body is covered with a layer of skin that looks solid to the naked eye but under a microscope it can be seen that this layer is perforated much like a teabag. If you were to hold a teabag to your nose and sniff deeply you would smell the...
Homeless Man
For #StreetSaturday curated by +Siddharth Pandit. A regular sight in Chichester is this man, apparently homeless, and I dread to think how he's coping with the temperatures we currently have around these parts; I hope he has a regular place to stay overnight. I've never spoken to him but he seems pleasant enough; never drunk, never shouting, never angry, just wandering around minding his own business usually. I've seen him eating outside a café before and I've heard from colleagues that one of the local Chinese restaurants usually allow him to eat whatever's left over at the end of their regular "all you can eat" lunchtime deals. Nice to hear, and sad at the same time. Google+: View post on...
Jimmy Choo Shoes
For #SaturdayStyle curated by +lynn langmade and +lane langmade. First off: I'm not a product photographer. I know, I know; it's very, very difficult to tell from this masterfully-composed and photographed shot on a towel on the bed, but it's true nonetheless. So, Jimmy Choo shoes: specifically, the most recently bought of the four pairs of Jimmy Choo shoes that my wife now owns, these ones being picked up in Chevy Chase, Maryland when we were over there in November (nice-looking place albeit with a paranoid cop who followed us around asking what I was shooting and then waited in the Jimmy Choo store to make sure we weren't about to rob the place until the security guard there effectively told him to sod off and stop bothering her store's customers). My wife loves Jimmy Choo shoes. They make her feel better about herself – a sign of great style – and they encourage other people to make ooh and aah noises when they see them. Google+: View post on...
Bus Windows
I actually remembered some of the themes that were running today so actively sought out things to fit (I'm not often that organised) and managed to take several photos that qualified for #WindowWednesday . This, however, was my favourite from the day simply because it held the most number of interesting (well, to me) things in it: a bus at the stop in West Street, Chichester about to pull away. Also submitted for +Monthly PAD Challenge, day 8. Google+: View post on...
Roly
We shifted position to North Street, today, because of a lack of photo opportunities and it was while we were standing around, waiting for something wonderful to appear that I spotted the subject of today's photo. His name's Roly and while it may look like he's a down-and-out that's mostly down to my playing around with Photoshop this evening; he's actually my brother's brother-in-law (or my sister-in-law's brother, if you prefer) and he was out with his wife in the cold sunshine that Chichester bathed in on his day off today. You'll notice my skill in getting that perfect portrait moment with the eyes closed. I did actually get some other shots where he's looking at me but I liked this one the best. For +Monthly PAD Challenge, day 7. Google+: View post on...
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