Monday, May 30, 2011

The "Myth" of the Evil Aliens

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In which I take Michael Shermer of Scientific American to task. Read more here .

Goodbye Orange ...

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For months now I have been eagerly anticipating getting an Internet-enabled 3G smartphone. I've had good service from my Sony-Ericsson K...
Friday, May 27, 2011

Concatenated SMS

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Just thought you'd like to see a picture of "Sister Nobili, based at the monastery, who became famous for performing her modern Hol...
Wednesday, May 25, 2011

Clare's operation a success

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UPDATE : (3 pm): Clare now arrived back home & asleep in own bed. --- We were at Taunton hospital for 7.30 a.m. yesterday morning al...
Saturday, May 21, 2011

'The Tunnel' by Ernesto Sabato

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Juan Pablo Castel is an Argentinean painter and a very, very strange person. We meet him after he has been convicted of the murder of Maria ...

Out and about in the Mendips

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Here's a view of Wells Cathedral from the lower slopes of the Mendips, taken a day or two ago. Wells cathedral from Milton Lodge A...
Friday, May 20, 2011

A family day out in Weston-super-Mare

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After days of rain and gloom, yesterday was warmish and sunny so Adrian, Clare and myself took my mother to Weston-super-Mare. Beryl Seel ha...
Tuesday, May 17, 2011

A Visual Guide to Special Relativity

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When you first study Special Relativity you meet the strange phenomena of time dilation, length contraction and the 'twins paradox'....
Monday, May 16, 2011

Book Review: 'All the lives he led'

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My review of Frederik Pohl's new novel here at sciencefiction.com . Good news today that Adrian's Canadian Visa has arrived. Hopef...
Saturday, May 14, 2011

Tesco Value

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Seen in Tesco this morning. At this level of "value" one can only speculate on the effects on your gastro-intestinal system of a ...