Food, Fieldwork and Instagram.
This summer I set out to investigate the way people perpetuate a particular image of themselves on social media platforms, specifically I wanted to look at foods and the various implications these foods could have. I…
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Myth Busting In The Archives
Do you like myths? I do. I enjoy them for what they are – fictive stories and tales. However, as an historian I cannot allow myths to masquerade as facts. We historians are society’s chartered pedants, wielding a…
Optical trapping, or how I spent my summer building an (almost) tractor beam.
My internship began two weeks into the start of the summer vacation, at the beginning of June. I worked in the St Andrews biophotonics group, which brings together physics (in the form of optical traps, imaging…
Coding and the curse of debugging
When I started my project at the end of June it was a blur of learning a new coding language, Python, and refreshing my knowledge of Quantum systems. I can safely say that the first of those two was by far the…
Contemporary? Memorials? In Edinburgh?
On the first of June, I started my research without being confident in the meaning of any of the three elements in the title of my project. Although this might seem like a challenging starting point, it ended up…
Readers of Philosophical Transactions in Nineteenth-Century Manchester
Nine o’clock in the morning in central Manchester. It’s busy; it’s hectic; its streets are teeming with commuters. Picture the scene 150 years ago, and you’d spot quite a few similarities. Merchants are flogging their…
The Ghosts aren’t the Scary Part…
Pictured above is a snapshot of an interactive map of St Andrews’ cinematic history (full version here). It chronicles all of the most significant events in this quaint town’s unlikely love affair with the Cinema and…
Quantum Wires and Rectification
My internship began early in the summer, one week following my final exams. Starting that early ended up being a good decision. As might well be expected, what I had set out to answer ended up being quite tricky. So…
Life on Mars(?)
Life, a complex issue Life on Earth has existed for at least 3.5 billion years. That is how long it took for biological evolution to use atoms and molecules as building blocks to create the incredible biological…
Photon condensates and Lasers
We all know about the 3 main states of matter; solid, liquid and gas. But if you cool a certain type of matter to extremely low temperatures (around -273C) it will condense further into what is known as a Bose-Einstein…
