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15 May 2012 ~ Comments Off

Inspiration: The Water Clocks of Bernard Gitton

Not long ago, I had an interesting lunchtime discussion with Job Vranish. I don’t recall exactly how we got on the topic, but we were discussing how mesmerizing siphons are. As the discussion progressed to imagining a fluid-based computer (that’s another story…), I remembered something I had seen as a child at the Indianapolis Children’s museum: an immense clock that kept time with the flow of water through glass tubes.

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02 June 2010 ~ Comments Off

Fusion in the Evening

A couple of weeks ago, I headed to Paddington and jumped on a train along with a notably large group of geeks. An hour later, we got off at Culham, a leafy little Oxfordshire town which happens to also be home to Europe’s largest fusion reactor. It was one of the Culham Centre for Fusion [...]

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