To Cambridge Again
The annual cycle of academic life brings me once again to my duties as External Examiner for Physics at the famous Midlands University called Cambridge, so I’m getting ready to take the train there. Here’s a picture of the Cavendish laboratory where I’ll be working for the next three days:

It hasn’t changed much since I was an undergraduate there (I graduated 31 years ago), but the area around it has certainly been heavily developed in the intervening years.
Anyway, I’d better be going. Toodle-pip!
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June 14, 2016 at 9:29 am
Just the crankshaft, perhaps the only discovery in the philosophy department.
June 15, 2016 at 12:36 pm
The Cam shaft was invented by Lord Ashcroft, presumably in Belize.