Happy Thanksgiving 2020!
Food arrived at the table soon after, but I rather liked the setting and these decorations, so thought I’d share. –cvj The post Happy Thanksgiving 2020! appeared first on Asymptotia.
View ArticleEvening Glow
It was a particularly crisp and clear afternoon in Los Angeles today. Usually one has to wait for some rain to come through to clear things up this much. But that hasn’t happened properly for sometime....
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This Feels Great!
[caption id="attachment_19729" align="aligncenter" width="499"] Andrea Ghez accepting the 2020 Nobel Prize for Physics[/caption]You know, it is easy (and healthy) to be steadfastly cynical about the...
View ArticleRepaired and Ready!
Well, I did what I said I’d try in the previous post. And it worked! I had a great time viewing the conjunction. I hope you did too if you found a moment and clear skies My photography was hampered by...
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Conjunction
[caption id="attachment_19762" align="aligncenter" width="499"] Jupiter (with some moons) and Saturn, 21st December 2020 (click for larger view) [/caption] But... while the viewing on the 21st (the...
View ArticleSunday Sketching
A shot of a (relatively) quick sketch in progress on Sunday, done with a dipping ink pen, and then splashing on some watercolour. Mostly just knocking rust off the sketching machinery (haven’t used...
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Taking a Breath
Felt like one of the best things to sit and do with family on the morning after the day before... -cvj Click to continue reading this post → The post Taking a Breath appeared first on Asymptotia.
View ArticleReunion
Revisiting an old friend you might recognize. (And discovering that my old inking/shading workflow was just fine. – I’d been experimenting with other approaches and also just getting back into the...
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A Dialogue about Art and Science!
On Saturday (tomorrow), I'll be talking with science writer Philip Ball at the Malvern Festival of Ideas! The topic will be Science and Art, and I think it will be an interesting and fun exchange. It...
View ArticlePi Day!
It’s pi day today! Don’t forget to celebrate! Options include walking around in circles at 1:59pm, baking a pie, eating pie, etc! Or maybe explain what pi is to somebody… I won’t list irrational...
View ArticleTalking at Fermilab!
This evening at 7:30pm Central time, come to Fermilab (online) for a public talk I’ll give about shaking up how we present serious scientific ideas in books for the public. It should be fun! The...
View ArticleArrival!
A major part of the reason I’ve been very quiet here since the last post is because I was working on a different kind of project that has in fact taken up much of my bandwidth during the last many...
View ArticleBack East
[I was originally going to use the title “Back Home”, but then somehow this choice had a resonance to it that I liked. (Also reminds me of a lovely Joshua Redman album…)] So I am back in London, my...
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What a Week!
I’m sitting, for the second night in a row, in a rather pleasant restaurant in Oxford, somewhere on the walk between the physics department and my hotel. They pour a pretty good Malbec, and tonight...
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The Life Scientific Interview
After doing a night bottle feed of our youngest in the wee hours of the morning some nights earlier this week, in order to help me get back to sleep I decided to turn on BBC Sounds to find a programme...
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