The Writhlington Orchid Project

Just a quick note:
Luke Barnes won the Society of Biology award for the best biology project in the UK!

Some long awaited photos from Day 1 of The Big Bang Science Fair. For some reason I cannot upload a post with an embedded slide show at the moment… but head over to the Picasa Album to have a look.

Good morning!
Technically the title of this post is wrong.  It’s day 2 today, although I didn’t write about day 1 yesterday due to tiredness!  To give you an idea of the dedication we have to update you all; it’s now 5:45 and I’m sitting at my laptop drinking coffee!
‘WOW’ is the only word I can [...]

Greetings from the Big Bang Fair in Manchester!
As you may be aware we are in manchester from now until Saturday for two reasons:
1) I (Luke Barnes) am in the finals of the National Science and Engineering Competition (intermediate age category, science devision).  This means that I have a little display up here, displaying my work [...]

You may have seen how recently we have been playing with a green screen to make a very fun little video about Sikkim’s climatic zones.  You may be wondering, what is going on behind the scenes?
The following pictures will hopefully give you an idea of what our green-screen (or ‘chroma key’ as it’s known as [...]

What happens when you cross a project relating to the Himalayas, a team of enthusiastic people, a green cloth and a lot of little bits of paper? I thought not!
You may or may not know that when filming in front of a green screen (or cloth in our case) you can make yourself appear [...]