They believed they contained the souls of the dead. 🫣😅😂

Okay and lots of actual science! Thanks to the 25 other amazing speakers over the last two days. 👏

5. Your Nobel Prize comes with its own unique artwork. Thanks to the replica of Brian Schmidt’s Nobel Prize that’s displayed at Mt Stromlo for this knowledge.

4. Mt Stromlo has actually had a few fires and in the most recent one in 2003 (I think it was this fire), all the past PhD theses were burnt. So the ashes were collected and placed in an urn and now each new PhD student that goes through adds a burnt page of their thesis to the urn.

3. An isotopologue is a chemical that differs from its parent chemical in that at least one atom has a different number of neutrons.

2. Physicists (Astro notwithstanding) are likely to cycle, run or boulder.

They are so cool! It definitely helped me absorb the information much more deeply as well, so win win.

I think a lot of what students like to learn is dependent on their teachers, mentors and encouragement, it’s amazing that these younglings have such an inspiring woman to show them it’s okay and pretty awesome to like programming. So, thankyou!

Bonus post of some of my travel pics 📸

Thankyou 🤩

My inspiration 🙌