Earlier this month I was lucky enough to be invited to join the Naked Scientists radio show to build a voltaic pile in front of a live audience. You can listen here: The story of the development of the pile is an interesting one. In 1799 Alessandro Volta was experimenting with some curious phenomena that had …
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The end of the Information Age?
Well, it’s obviously not the end of the Information Age, if such a thing truly exists. Although I am marking the end of my personal journey into building the Science Museum’s brand new Information Age gallery, and heading off to pastures new. When I started at the Science Museum back in 2010 as an assistant …
Black box technology
We often talk about ‘black box’ technologies in science and technology studies. The idea behind them is that so often we don’t really know what goes on inside a box, and the effects of such a box might as well be magic. Lots of clever people spend a lot of time trying to open these …