Paul Sutton – personal blog
Code Club 15/1/2022
The next Club will be on Saturday 15th January 2022 @ Paignton Library. Please contact the library to book.
We will carry on with what we were doing last session, hopefully expand on what we were doing with the Micro:bit
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#CodeClub,#FreeCodeCamp,#Microbit,#Scratch
Next Code Club
Next code club Saturday 5/2/2022 : Please contact Paignton Library to book.
James Webb Launch 11/1/2022
The JWST launched on Christmas day 2021. The Launch and full deployment has gone as planned. Now starts the process of calibration and other tests etc before the science can start.
Lets discuss more at the next Paignton Library STEM group meeting
Update 11/1/2022
I have added a link to a discourse discussion [3] Along with a link to my Tuxiversity forum to discuss Astronomy / Science related courses. [4].
The JWST mission could be a good topic at the Paignton Library STEM group [5] on 12th February.
1 More info @ Nasa.gov 2 JWST Tracker 3 Discourse Discussion 4. Tuxiversity Forum 5. Paignton Library STEM Group
Hubble Space Telescope Images
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We can perhaps discuss further at the Feb Stem group meeting
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EU tech sector fights for a Level Playing Field with Microsoft
This was posted to Mastodon earlier, I am sharing to help raise awareness of the lawsuit. Also included below some links to alternative cloud solutions. Note: Disroot now uses a Cryptpad installation for some of their services.
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#EU,#Technology,#Sector,#AntiTrust,#Lawsuit,#Microsoft, #LevelPlayingField,
Trojans boot camp 2022 2
Date : Sunday 9th January 2022 Time : 10 am —> 13:00
Location : Foxhole playing field, Bellfield Road, Paignton
2022 is here, so on with training and we are no upping the training to include contact football in preparation for the season ahead.
Paignton Library STEM Group – Jan 2022
The January STEM group meeting will take place Today 8/1/2022 As with previous events, this will be a mix of Science, Technology, Engineering subjects along with discussions and a look at projects brought along to the event.
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AlJazeera
I have started to watch the AlJazeera news channel, I am getting sick of the BBC, and to a point the other UK based news channels constantly going on about covid and ignoring other important events in the world, which if anything get a very brief mention. They seem incapable of putting out a broad range of news.
AlJazeera has some excellent coverage of what is going on in Kazakhstan
AlJazeera can be found on freeview just up from bbc news channel, and is well worth checking out. I am subscribed on Mastodon to a newsbot @[email protected] which federates news stories in to my stream.
They also do some excellent programming, for example there was a recent program looking at the history of the development of the spacesuit and this story was told by the granddaughter of the developer of the Apollo suit.
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Open Learn – Discovering Chemistry
Anyone looking at undertaking this course with Open Learn, I have set up a thread on discourse to facilitate further discussion.
Chemistry lies at the centre of our modern life, playing a part in areas as diverse as the development of new drugs and materials, analysing our environment through to more mundane activities such as washing your clothes and making your tea. But to truly understand the role chemistry plays you need to have a sound grasp of a number of fundamental principles.
This free course, Discovering chemistry, introduces you to some of these concepts, beginning with the idea that everything that you can see is made of building blocks called atoms. This leads on to a look at the chemical elements and how they are arranged in the Periodic Table, enabling chemists to rationalise patterns in their chemical and physical behaviour.
Next you will consider chemical reactions, specifically how atoms combine with other atoms to form molecules, and how molecules combine with other atoms or molecules to form bigger molecules. You will meet simple (tried and tested) theories to explain the bonding in molecules and at how their shapes may be explained, and indeed predicted. And in a wider sense you’ll be looking at why reactions happen at all and how fast they go.
This is also a beginner’s level course in the language of the chemist; you’ll learn about symbols, formulas and how chemical equations which represent reactions are constructed. Finally you will see how chemists count atoms and molecules, essential for making up solutions of a known concentration in order to carry out a reaction, or performing a chemical analysis.
mRNA Drug Development
Interesting post on Mastodon with regard to mRNA drug development at Moderna.
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Update and repost 5/1/2022
Interesting article from Scientific American on a Covid Vaccine for all
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