“I’m very stubborn …” she said. “I like a challenge and I don’t give up easily.”
Sounds like she’s got what it takes.
I have a soft spot for small, (relatively) cheap but very clever experiments which eliminate huge volumes of theoretical possibility.
The oldest plant ever to be regenerated has been grown from 32,000-year-old seeds.
Mind. Blown.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/120221-oldest-seeds-regenerated-plants-science
A Russian team discovered a seed cache of Silene stenophylla, a flowering plant native to Siberia, that had been buried by an Ice Age squirrel
Let’s hope they don’t also unearth a 32KYR plague virus…
Then again . . . Humanity is the greatest danger this planet has ever faced, so p’raps not…
Excellent and fascinating, thanks for sharing Paul.
Been looking for it for a while - be nice if we could get some actually clear skies, been misty/foggy here which with background light pollution is making it a sod to spot.
Beautifully clear here last night, just a small smudge through x20 binoculars. Sounds like it may brighten over the next couple of weeks, just in time for the Moon to pop up and ensure it remains a smudge!
You never know though, best of luck peering through the fog!
Mind was sent into overdrive this morning whilst on way to a little job.
Thing on Radio 4 about 9am discussing superconductors and all the associated fucking weirdness thereof.
They behave like an atom. An actual atom. Insanity.
I realise I haven’t really sold it in the description above 
How is your understanding of the Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer theory after listening to that?
Ha! Did you listen to it too?
Regularly appeared at Hartlepool Town Hall in the fifties, usually supported by Wilson, Kepple and Betty.
Nah, Graeme mentioned it in the what are you watching thread. Might have a listen on Sounds, quite enjoy it when Bragg can’t disguise his bafflement.
#Freeman Hardy Willis have got your shoes…
One guy had a go at explaining it, in a qualitative way (negative electrons moving through a slightly flexible lattice of positive ions, each electron draws some positive charge towards itself and that clump of positive charge attracts other electrons - so two electrons can be drawn to the same place and will appear to have ‘paired up’ as long as everything’s cold enough that thermal vibrations don’t jostle them apart).
I think Bragg’s response consisted of the two words “Oh, God” 
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Fuller, Smith and Turner for the win
Yeah. That’s kinda what I was alluding to.
Old people are mutants!
