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• Date:

  Thursday, 28 May 2009 - 19:07 UTC

  Bob O'Hara said:

  Well, looks like you’ve stumped us all!

  5 and 7 I recognize, so I’m wondering how many others were part of last year’s ScienceOnline tour.

• Date:

  Thursday, 16 Jul y 2009 - 16:21 UTC

  Henry Gee said:

  1: Inside the Nature Office, only upside down.

  2. Darwin’s gaff in North Gower Street

  3. Something Or Other at Kew. Probably the Duchess of Cornwall’s Gnetoretum.

  4: Some erection of Halley’s commemorating the fifteenth Harrison chronometer, and the first to succeed without having to be subtended by a pentagram; being earthed to Robert Hooke’s grannie’s whalebone corsets; greased with cormorant’s entrails; burning down; shrivelling up; falling overboard before it reached the Dry Tortugas; or playing ‘The Girl From Ipanema’ at every quarter-hour.

  5: The Natural History Museum, as any fule kno.

  6: Some erection of Herschel’s on his Royal Worm Observatory, Deptford, where Michael Flatley Faraday discovered the Christmas Pudding.

  7: The Royal Institution, from the inside, tho’ I can’t remember the seats being as pink as that;

  8: The Royal Institution, from the outside.

• Date:

  Thursday, 16 Jul y 2009 - 17:12 UTC

  Matt Brown said:

  Henry gets 2/8. Poor show.

• Date:

  Thursday, 16 Jul y 2009 - 18:29 UTC

  Richard Wintle said:

  1. University College London, co-educational dormitory (cropped to avoid compromising photography of students who should be studying).

  2. Building across the street, affording excellent viewing vantage of 1.

  3. That Princess Diana memorial, subjected to a rather severe Fourier transform. Oh wait – that’s not a scientific venue.

  4. The clock on top of the British Museum. Look carefully, it’s there, really.

  5. Museum of Prehistoric Teeth.

  6. Little-known tower used by Sir Isaac Newton to prove that Galileo was essentially right, gravity works, and that London is not level.

  7. Royal Albert Hall, slightly remodeled via quantum tunneling to reveal underlying pink shade.

  8. The bloody British Museum again.

  I’m going for zero out of eight, obviously.

• Date:

  Thursday, 16 Jul y 2009 - 20:42 UTC

  Graham Steel said:

  _Non-Londoners might struggle a bit… Not wrong there, M@.

  All I can tender is as follows.

  7: The Royal Institution, from the inside, tho’ I can’t remember the seats being as pink as that;

  This can be resoltidely confirmed as such:-

  

  Lordy knows who took this out of focus shot, but I insist there is substantiated evidence that a certain Mr G.S. of Glasgow might be in the foreground wearing an orange t-shirt and the seats in the Faraday Theatre in the RI are indeed of a rather bright form of pork pink.

• Date:

  Thursday, 16 Jul y 2009 - 20:55 UTC

  Graham Steel said:

  Oops – missing photo:-