Spoof
The fine game of spoof.
Misc
Art
Alan Parker was a Leverhulme trust visiting-artist-in-residence at Warwick University. Here is an unusual portrait he did of me entitled The optics lesson of Dr Turner. It is based on Rembrandt's The anatomy lesson of Dr Tulp and was shortlisted for the BP Portrait prize.
Some other cool art.
My ancestor
Hermann von Helmholtz, he of the free energy F=U-TS, is my scientific great^6 grandfather (my PhD supervisor's, PhD supervisor's ... supervisor).
"Whoever in the pursuit of science, seeks after immediate practical utility may rest assured that he seeks in vain." Helmholtz
The world
This guy saw it coming
Quote-of-the-day
What I am saying is, we have now what we have always needed, real partnership with the government.
