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The politics of the green movement and the polarity of views have often prevented real debate on climate change from happening. Each side will reinforce their opinion with selective facts from the data and use every opportunity to ridicule their opposition's theories. A great deal of the climate discussion that has appeared in the media has been coloured by specious
The first is a over ten years old and is considered to be a classic - just follow the instructions. It's best if you can run it full-screen.
Today is the 98th anniversary of the birth Alan Turing, one of most brilliant minds of the 20th Century. Born on was born on 23rd June 1912 in London, England, he is known as one of the fathers of modern computing, though his ideas for programmable computers were ahead of their time. He is widely know for the test which
On the 16th May 1960, Theodore Maiman at the Hughes Research Lab in California fired up the first confirmed demonstration of a laser using a synthetic ruby. A few months later on 12th December and persuing a different line of research, Ali Javan at Bell Labs, showed the first helium-neon gas-discharge laser. One of the key differences between the two versions,
If, like me, you have always believed that you never stop learning, and that the pursuit of knowledge and understanding is part of the human condition, then I think you will love this. "In Our Time" , one of the BBC's flagship radio programmes, now has its archive online, going back to 1998. "In Our Time" is a weekly radio programme
The BBC reports that the a team of scientists from Marche Polytechnic University in Ancona, Italy have found three new species of tiny creatures living over 2 miles down in the Mediterranean Sea. It's so deep and dark there's almost no oxygen whatsoever and although only 1mm in size, this is the first time that anything other than bacteria have
I think I'd better learn to knit and get a few sweaters and scarves under way. Just in case we step into a global cooling period, thanks to an Icelandic volcano with a hot temper. If you think it can't happen, it's only because your human memory is rather short. I'm reading a really interesting book called "Cold," by Bill