The world in 3D A friend’s young daughter, Connie, came out with a great line the other week that got me thinking. When asked why she didn’t want to go and see the 3D version of the latest cinematic offering aimed not at all cynically at her age group, she replied: ‘I want to watch [...]
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There was a young fellow called Wright, who travelled much faster than light… The news from CERN that those tricky neutrino chaps might have exceeded the speed of light has got quite a few people excited! CERN’s measurements that showed a bunch of these nearly mass-less sub-atomic particles turning up a whole 60 billionths of [...]
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Latest sensational development could cause tremors! Italian scientists are to press for charges of manslaughter to be levelled at the Pope and senior Vatican officials for failing to warn of the possible dangers of the devastating L’Aquila earthquake in 2009 that killed 309 people, we can exclusively not reveal. As the representative of the Almighty [...]
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The God of Small Things It’s very interesting to have been at the cutting edge. I’m glad I saw it. It’s also very sad to see the cutting edge go err blunt. Or go elsewhere, if a cutting edge is movable that is. Whatever, one morning I woke up and the cutting edge wasn’t there [...]
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‘Planet Dinosaur’ Joy! Continuity Announcer Misery! I think I probably lost interest in eating cereals about the same time they stopped putting plastic dinosaurs in the box. It was always the thought of another yellow stegosaurus, or perhaps a red diplodocus (not to scale), to add to my expanding dinosaur farm, that kept me munching through [...]
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Science Equipment and the name game I caught a clip of Billy Connolly on the TV recently and was reminded – yet again – just what a great comedian he is. Whenever I think of Billy, I can’t help but think of ‘Wellies’ – you must have seen the sketch and heard the song! [...]
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Free words for all! It began with P. G. Wodehouse and lorgnettes, a documentary presented by Terry Wogan and a question. Specifically it was all about the lorgnettes, but ended up with microcentrifuge tubes. Now, I like a bit of period verbals* in my reading. I was always enthralled by Chandler’s California and his rooms [...]
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