Monday, March 30, 2009

Save the Children

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Peter Singer was on the radio this morning, arguing we should all be giving a substantial part of our income to charities such as OXFAM. Hi...

Nigel Seel: about me

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Similar : CV   My book "Business Strategies for the Next-Generation Network" (2007) (PDF) My articles at sciencefiction.com (2...
Saturday, March 28, 2009

Bee Home erected

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The Bee Home is now in place, put up this morning with a couple of judicious nails and some wire, as shown above. The intended inhabitants ...
Friday, March 27, 2009

Cruel and Unusual

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I am a warrior for the cause. I used to be a Masters student in the nuclear engineering faculty. While I worked on reactor design, my brot...

Bee Home, and the decline and fall of Hard SF

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Last week in New Scientist , on the back cover where they do queries, there was a piece on Bee Homes. There, I said something positive about...
Thursday, March 26, 2009

Standing Wave

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We’re doing Mach 2 fifty metres over the Amazon jungle. I address the pilot. “Hey, Juan, are we gonna come out of this?” “Sure Peter. Storie...

Hangin’ with the Cousins

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A highly-unusual space-time anomaly deposited a copy of The Economist for September 18th – 24th 2010 on my desk today. I was particularly t...
Monday, March 23, 2009

So farewell 'New Scientist'

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The very last copy of my subscription to New Scientist came through the door last Saturday. I shall not be renewing. It has become a truism...
Sunday, March 22, 2009

Flooding at Penton Grafton

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A few weeks ago, after a period of very heavy rain, we did a circular walk and came out, near our home, at Penton Grafton only to find the w...
Saturday, March 21, 2009

The 10,000 Year Explosion

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Just finished The 10,000 Year Explosion by Gregory Cochran and Henry Harpending. The thesis of this book is that the changing environments ...