While the Summer holidays are officially here and I’m not even thinking of teaching much at the moment, my other “job” still continues. The Voorwerp-related one.
Recently two of my friends mentioned how remarkable it is that I also still find time to do ‘all of these other things’, while I didn’t think it would come [...]
Category Archives: Lectures
Aug
04
2010
Lecturing again
Apr
20
2010
I found NEMO again
Here’s a quick note of how fun the museum weekend was again.
The Dutch Railway website had warned me for delays, but there weren’t any. The train took me from station Heerlen directly to Amsterdam Central in the planned two and a half hours. And though I did this trip last year, knowing me I’d printed [...]
Apr
08
2010
Finding NEMO again
Remember it was ‘museum weekend’ last year around this time? It was in fact the same weekend of the ‘100 hours of astronomy’. And I was asked to represent Galaxy Zoo at science center NEMO in Amsterdam. Since it was a huge success, I said ‘yes’ when I was asked to participate again.
You’re welcome to [...]
Mar
30
2010
Lecture at dr Aletta Jacobs College
A while ago I travelled all the way up north of this little country – to Groningen – for the first time, to do a few talks about Galaxy Zoo. Recently I was asked to do this five hour train trip again, to tell a group of students from the dr Aletta Jacobs College about [...]
Sep
13
2009
I’m back and the new year has started
I’m back and the new year has started and there have been some exciting things going on. Here’s a few of those things which could’ve been paragraphs from my diary, if I had one.
Some day at the end of August or the beginning of this month – I would’ve written that I had a lovely [...]