If you look up, waaay up, when passing by the Physics and Astronomy building these days you may notice subtle changes.
Some of the historical building sculpted gargoyles had seen better days and indeed were crumbling and deteriorating beyond hope.
As part of the building renovations, a local stone sculptor was commissioned to replace some of the gargoyles with the likenesses of our Movember team, The Physics Phuzzy Lips.
Here’s a photo of world-famous chefs Will Handler and John de Bruyn with even-more-world-famous chef Andrew Wolwowicz from The Springs restaurant in London.
Andrew was guest chef at the November meeting of the London Chapter of Les Marmitons International, a cooking group that meets at Fanshawe College. Will and John we part of the team that cooked up the best Braised Beef Cheek Perogies with Savory Blueberry Sauce this side of Gdansk.
Computer simulations are very common now in science, and sometimes the results are just awesome and pretty at the same time. Here’s an example of galaxy formation and mergers, and although there’s many such simulations out there, this one I find particularly impressive. Calculations were done on a supercomputer at the NASA Ames Research Center in California, for a total of 1 million CPU hours…..
Three days of talks and panel discussions at The 2012 Canadian Space Summit concluded with a public talk by Apollo 17 astronaut Harrison ‘Jack’ Schmitt’. Jack is the only scientist, and the last person to date to have descended to the moon’s surface. His public talk was followed by a book
The American Physical Society, the world’s second largest organization of physicists, has elected Dr. Richard Holt to the Fellowship.
This election is in recognition, by peers, of outstanding contribution to physics.
The citation will read, “For a landmark proposal to test Bell’s inequality, and high-precision experiments of key significance to test quantum electrodynamics in two-electron atomic ions.”
