[Closed] Bubbles and BBCs new yummy sciency-bits girl

Just caught the end.

She's rather, erm, bubbly.

anyone else clock the similarity between the Beeb's new highly photogenic science dolly and the Hunger Games?

Nope.

You missed her object lesson in diving into a bubbling dive pool. In her swimsuit.

I see her PHD was in something incredibly useful to humanity - the ignition of RDX (high explosives).

Still props for being a girl and having the stubbornness/tenacity to become involved in a very male dominated area (physics).

She's been on our screens for a while now and was in the recent iceberg programme.

Not seen Hunger Games but she was brilliant in Winters Bone. A great film that didn't receive the acclaim it deserves. Oh and yes she is rather lovely

I've seen the fragrant Dr Czerski elsewhere, and she is rather lovely.
In my very humble opinion, of course...

You missed her object lesson in diving into a bubbling dive pool. In her swimsuit.

I presume it's on iPlayer? Sorry, got to go...

I see her PHD was in something incredibly useful to humanity - the ignition of RDX (high explosives).

If you mean in areas like mining, demolition, etc, then yes, it is.

I guess. The only use I knew for that stuff was for when you absolutely positively have to kill everyone in a Basra compound.

List of research interests...."Acoustics of bubbles", can anyone tell me what this relates to? Tracking SSBN's?

I'm rather intrigued by her!

I wanted to see more of her mentor's field on ultrasonic cleaning 🙁

PS< what does RDX mean?

And what exactly has he got to do with Dr Czerski?

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Research Department Explosive. Goes boom in a big way, lots of fun until you're on the receiving end of it.

She looks better in hunger games!

Reported.

sexy physicist aside was it good may iplayer it tomorrowz

I do kind of wish she was appreciated for her brain. Any girl who can talk about sciencey stuff has my interest.

yep, as good as science gets, even on BBC4. Still get's dumbed down a bit much.

I want to see more ugly scientists. I reckon they want it more.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01rtdy6/POP!_The_Science_of_Bubbles/
20:30 on. Purely in the interest of scientific research you understand. I have to admit I'm quite impressed by her diving.

http://bbc.in/149C5D5

your underscores are not wanted here, aracer.

Anyway to ever be interested in bubbles academically....I'd have to be off my non-existant man tits on LSD.

Good for her though, it does seem like the research has a lot of wider value.

crow-barring the localised deployment of cancer drugs research in there was a bit OTT. Not everything has to be a cure for cancer*

And not enough on the molecular interaction of surfactants and surface tensions IMO.

*TM Daily Mail

stoner im an ugly scientist and im gagging for it

even work on daily mail favourite breast cancer

your underscores are not wanted here, aracer.

It's hardly my fault the STW forum is broken. Works fine if you cut and paste.

Edit: I've checked and the link works anyway even though the display is a bit dodgy

Stoner, what would you say the research will primarily useful for? The biggest thing I can think of is tracking submarines....what application does bubble acoustic research have for medicine? They state that it does but I can't really be arsed to trawl through reviews to get why as I'm currently trying to do a 5000 word essay on the neurological underpinnings of blindsight. WOOOO

Come to think of it, I have a feeling I knew/know somebody who was doing research into bubbles. Maybe I'll have to watch the whole programme rather than just searching for the interesting bits and see if anybody I recognise gets mentioned.

The acoustic bit is obviously quite a powerful direction for research way beyond cleaning bike parts and teeth.

Military uses may well fund more research to their own ends, but so has it funded a lot of ground breaking scientific development over the ages. Discovery and knowledge can be an amoral slut sometimes 🙂

kimbers, please tell me you're an illegal immigrant lesbian researcher discovering a cure for cancer - DM would vaporise if they got hold of your life story ...

Military uses may well fund more research to their own ends, but so has it funded a lot of ground breaking scientific development over the ages.

It used to. Not so sure that is the case any more. We used to have a blue sky research budget, that pretty much disappeared, and even the applied research budget which did fund a lot of innovative stuff also became far smaller. I'm not sure I can see anything as significant as LCD displays (or even flat panel speakers) being invented in Malvern using government money any more. Not that there is no innovation, but it's a lot more focused on specific applications where you know the result you're expecting.

not surprising I guess.

Does Malvern not still have close links with university departments to get access to new ideas?

Still get's dumbed down a bit much.

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Does Malvern not still have close links with university departments to get access to new ideas?

Possibly some, almost certainly a lot less involvement than there was - such stuff was funded under the blue sky or applied research budgets - they're not going to report stuff to Malvern if they're not getting funding that way and people they might report to don't have budgets to book their time to. When I first started there pretty much all the work I did was funded by the applied research budget, with a smattering of blue sky stuff (I didn't really do the sort of thing which would attract blue sky funding). The last few years there not only did I do no applied research stuff, I don't even know anybody else who did.

Ooooh you were a DRA scientist? Nice.