Category: Fun

Museum of Physics

By Andrei Zvelindovsky on Friday, September 13, 2013 • ( 1 Comment )

Former lecturers of the university of Cagliari in Italy created a wonderful collection of Physics experimental equipment called Museo di Fisica di Sardegna. The collection has many exhibits which one play with […]

Our physicist in US calendar

By Andrei Zvelindovsky on Tuesday, September 3, 2013 • ( 3 Comments )

UCLan reports on the new US Soft Matter calendar. Download yourself a free copy, and enjoy our image in December 2013 ! UCLAN PHYSICIST WINS AN INTERNATIONAL ART COMPETITION A physicist from […]

Can Molecular Gastronomy distinguish French and Italian cuisine ?

By Andrei Zvelindovsky on Friday, April 26, 2013 • ( Leave a comment )

Molecular Gastronomy is a subfield of Physics and Physical Chemistry of food. Tonight a part of our group participated in an extensive scientific discussion if Molecular Gastronomy can distinguish French and Italian […]

At Least One

By Israr on Monday, April 1, 2013 • ( Leave a comment )

“At least one” is a mathematical term meaning one or more. It is commonly used in situations where existence can be established but it is not known how to determine the total number of […]

Google’s April joke on our blog

By Andrei Zvelindovsky on Monday, April 1, 2013 • ( Leave a comment )

Internal search algorithms of mighty Google created an incredible 1st April-like text from our blog http://studyphys.wordpress.com. Do not forget to send it to all your students, who have a rare chance to enter such a fascinating study ! 🙂

Happy 2013 !

By Andrei Zvelindovsky on Tuesday, January 1, 2013 • ( 1 Comment )

Dear friends, colleagues, readers, New year, 2013, just started ! I wish it to be a happy and prosperous year for you ! You hopefully watched lots of fireworks at your places. […]

Snow in Preston !

By Andrei Zvelindovsky on Sunday, December 23, 2012 • ( Leave a comment )

Due to tropical winds we don’t have yet snow in Preston, but rather lots of rain almost every day. 🙂 However, if you read our blog, you can enjoy nice snow falling […]

Dinner from Pakistan in Preston

By Andrei Zvelindovsky on Tuesday, December 18, 2012 • ( 1 Comment )

Today our new PhD students from Pakistan organised a home style dinner for our group and some friends in their house in Preston. As they just moved in, that was a combination […]

Sinterklaas comes to Preston

By Andrei Zvelindovsky on Wednesday, December 5, 2012 • ( Leave a comment )

Dutch traditions have strong roots in our group. First of them is a hard work. On 5th December our former student Christine Stokes visited us with a program of a small mini(nano […]

Preston on fire !

By Andrei Zvelindovsky on Sunday, September 9, 2012 • ( 2 Comments )

Tonight at 8pm Preston was set on fire ! 🙂 The weather was warm, the rain forgot about Preston today. The final procession of the Guild 2012 was the torchlight procession. Although […]