Talk for the Bristol (UK) Festival of Ideas on similarities between everyday activities like crosswords, card games, and sports and the process of scientific discovery.

3. 2-Across: Theory of interactions
between light and matter (2 words)

4. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Max_Planck_1901.GIF

5. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Einstein_patentoffice_full.jpg

6. 2-Across: Theory of interactions
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8. US Library of Congress,
LC-DIG-ggbain-35303

9. Image: Pieter Kuiper
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Broglie_Big.jpg

10. 2-Across: Theory of interactions
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11. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Double-slit_experiment_results_Tanamura_2.jpg

12. Image: NIST
http://www.davidreneke.com/
http://www.discoveringfossils.co.uk/

13. http://www.sciencemag.org/content/328/
5977/463.abstract
http://www.sciencecartoonsplus.com/
http://justlikecooking.blogspot.com/2012/05/
stock-photo-fun-confused-scientist.html

14. Image: CERN
http://sherlock.boardhost.com/

16. 2-Across: Theory of interactions
between light and matter (2 words)
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26. Physical Review X 4, 021047 – Published 12 June 2014
Quantum Bidding in Bridge

28. Credit: Laurie Hatch/ W. M. Keck Observatory
Photo by Tom Balonek
Image: NASA

29. Image: NASA Image: Hyperphysics
http://www.astro.virginia.edu/class/majewski/astr313/lectures/photometry/

30. Images: NASA

31. Image: NOAO

34. Images: Becky Koopmann
NGC 2090

36. http://animated-sun.weebly.com/animated-solar-system.html

37. https://www.astro.virginia.edu/class/whittle/astr553/Topic05/t5_rotcurv.html

38. (Rubin et al 1978 ApJ 225 L107)

39. Begeman et al., 1991, M. N. R. A. S., 249, 523 http://bustard.phys.nd.edu/Phys171/
lectures/dm.html
http://www.hindawi.com/journals/aa/2009/752439/fig1/

40. http://classic.sdss.org/legacy/

41. Image: NASA

42. Ordinary Matter
Dark Matter

43. http://www.theguardian.com/sport/2009/mar/26/bridge-vanderbilt-trophy

45. “Fussball ist wie Schach, nur ohne Würfel.”
– Lukas Podolski
Photo: Sky Sports

46. “Football is like chess, without the dice.”
– Lukas Podolski
Photo: Sky Sports

47. “Football is like chess, without the dice.”
– Jan Böhmermann spoofing Lukas Podolski

48. Photo: Mark J. Rebilas-USA TODAY Sports

49. Bradley Ormesher/ The Times

50. REUTERS/GIAMPIERO SPOSITO

51. Photo: AP

52. GIF from: http://worldsoccertalk.com/
Photo: Action Images/ Daily Telegraph

53. http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/07/02/sports/worldcup/all-of-tim-howards-saves.html

54. http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/07/02/sports/worldcup/all-of-tim-howards-saves.html

55. http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/07/02/sports/worldcup/all-of-tim-howards-saves.html

56. http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/07/02/sports/worldcup/all-of-tim-howards-saves.html

57. Via headlinesamerica.com

58. http://prints.rmg.co.uk/art/513777/Marine_timekeeper_H1_front_view

63. 1 second = 9,192,631,770 oscillations
of light from 133Cs ground-state hyperfine

64. Image: NIST

65. 1.0000000000000000 ± 0.0000000000000001 s

66. 100,000,000,000,000,000 “ticks”
Adapted from C.W. Chou, et al., Science 329, 1630 (2010);

67. Photo: Mark J. Rebilas-USA TODAY Sports

68. http://www.newgrange.com/guest-photos.htm

69. http://www.newgrange.com/guest-photos.htm