Category: science

I was up at our experimental site at Puéchabon the other day, installing a new PC to collect images from our webcam. The previous one had been stolen by some local yokels, along with all the solar panels and the electronics to go with them, and a load of other hardware. The…

We saw something cool on the way to work this morning. It turns out that they're considered pests in this part of the world, but a five metre string of nose-to-tail caterpillars counts as cool in my books even if they are pests. Apparently, these little critters make nests high in pine trees (we think we saw the nest -- looked like a big ball of spiderweb), then troop down the tree and off into the world to make caterpillary mischief of one sort or another.

I'm a sucker for nature photos. One of our annual outings when we lived in Bristol was to the Nature Photographer Of The Year exhibition at the city museum. Going by the crowds there, we aren't the only ones who like this stuff.

So, here's some eye candy.

_via the MIT Technology Review Physics arXiv Blog_ Everything's better in slow-motion, right? And everything's even more betterer in super-slow-slow-slow slow-mo, am I right? (You know I'm right.) It turns out that if you have a high-speed (10,000 fps!) camera and a pile of C4…

In my day job, I work on the ecology of Mediterranean ecosystems in southern France, and if you work on a particular type of ecosystem, the first thing you need to know is where you can find your ecosystem! Seems like a simple problem, but it's not.