Jasp’s Blog

Its all been a bit hectic recently, as its been the transition from my Masters (Which I passed with distinction) to the PhD. However between this I though I’d take a bit of a break, so spent a few weeks at home, catching up with family and friends. Unlike the move to university there are [...]

I recently did some work at the Edinburgh Science Festival, which attempts to engage the public with science, particularly young children. While I’d like to say that this work was voluntary, it wasn’t, and this underlies something which I see as a far more serious problem.
The supposed aim of the Science Festival is to make [...]

Today I managed to rope myself into going to see a ballet, and despite it being ‘Edward Scissorhands’ I still half expected something pretentious, inaccessible and dull. Still, I thought, you’ve got to try these things once. Although I doubt anyone has been on their deathbed thinking, ‘Damnit, if only I’d seen a ballet,’ I’m [...]

After a long period of downtime my blog is finaly back online, this time running under different software. Unfortunately the old blog died when my webhost went bankrupt, but through the wonders of Google I have again be able to save the content. I’ll probably just chuck the best of it in a static archive [...]