Got a friendly update from An Post (who I use for addresspal deliveries from the UK): Ah, time to look at alternatives to buying things from England I guess. I am reminded by all this about how ‘progress’ isn’t always in one direction, it’s redefinable and life really is characterised by change rather than progress.
This is a cool project to do when the kids are a bit older: The resolution of a telescope’s images depends both on the wavelength at which it operates and on the diameter of its dish. The longer the wavelength, the worse the resolution; and the larger the diameter, the better the resolution. Radio waves […]
“Democracy is not something you believe in or a place you hang your hat, but it’s something you do. You participate. If you stop doing it, democracy crumbles.” – Abbie Hoffman
So suggests Arnold Kling, and it explains the problem better than all the talk about ‘fake news’ and deleting bad content, and all that: The Internet, smart phones, and social media (ISS) have set human communication back about 20,000 years. That is, we now rely more on gossip than we have since we lived in […]
It’s been ages since I posted some music on Fridays, so here we go with Rob Zombie’s latest from his upcoming album ‘The Lunar Injection Kool Aid Eclipse Conspiracy”. Rob really does do awesome album names. I’ve also been giving this a go, there’s some absolute banging tunes here. Ideal for a Friday afternoon when […]
… that Brexit “may be more brutal than anyone expected“. Sir John Major said the government’s “negotiating failure” will cost the public dearly, as he blamed the UK’s “blustering”, “threats” and “inflexibility” that he said will make future trading “less profitable”. The pre-recorded speech at Middle Temple also included Sir John’s stark claim that Britain […]
From the Irish Times: Veteran foreign correspondent and author Robert Fisk has died after becoming unwell at his Dublin home on Friday. It is understood the journalist was admitted to St Vincent’s hospital where he died a short time later. He was 74. Fisk was one of the most highly regarded and controversial British foreign correspondents of […]
