Equate - Lesley’s and Adam’s day trip to Warwick Uni
21 May 2009
Lesleys comments: ‘Today I met Adam at University of Warwick as he had arranged for us to use the microscopes there. We were met by Dr. Ken Flint, Director of Undergraduate Studies, Biological Sciences, who let us into the building and took us upstairs to the labs. It was really quiet there, think perhaps we were the only people in the building. Ken had got all the microscopes set up for us which was very kind of him and he was a great source of knowledge, explaining what we were seeing and the science behind everything. It was fascinating - a hidden world. We could see the structure of the plant - cell walls, membranes, the chloroplast and the cell nucleus. Some plants worked better than others, the Acer tree from our front garden worked particularly well - the red leaves signaling fields of iridescent green demarcated with streams of pink. We had a few microscopes to chose from ranging from x3 to the really powerful ones x100. Also had the option of removing a lens and fitting a camera on to take photos. Enjoyed science, especially biology, when I was at school and loved being in that environment again.
I know a month or so ago I had questioned whether having the contribution of a third party was mixing things up too much (having spoken to another mathematician and then an Arts professional) but have been having other thoughts…....would there be room for another person but from a different discipline? One that maybe pulled the equation together (maybe botany or microbiology)...? Almost like a bridge that links the divide…...now that could be interesting!‘
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