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March 18, 2008 by graham
Sir Arthur C. Clarke, Rest in Peace
From BBC News: British science fiction writer Sir Arthur C Clarke has died in Sri Lanka at the age of 90… Sir Arthur's vivid – and detailed – descriptions of space shuttles, super-computers and rapid communications systems were enjoyed by millions of readers around the world. He was the author of more than 100 fiction [...]Archive
February 22, 2008 by graham
One of those analogies you won’t forget
My colleague and friend Matt Revell has a nice summary of some of the reasons for rising domestic fuel prices in the UK at the moment. A phrase that particularly caught my eye was this one: Wind power, also, is not reliable nor particularly efficient and requires generation from other sources (coal, gas, nuclear, for [...]Archive
May 4, 2007 by graham
All together now: *sigh*
For every prat like this there's an equal and opposite prat like this: The government faces a legal challenge for sending every secondary school in England a copy of Al Gore's climate change film An Inconvenient Truth. … A father from Kent, Stuart Dimmock, has lodged papers at London's High Court seeking judicial review. He [...]Archive
November 9, 2006 by graham
Anti-science
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September 9, 2006 by graham
T -9 Minutes and Holding
Well, the muse seems to have deserted me today, so it’s back to editing the Muse manuscript instead. I got through a chapter of edits last night – the dramatic bits were okay; it was the bits in between that needed refining – and I’m now at 77 out of 333 pages edited. You can [...]Archive
May 6, 2006 by graham
Stupidity Breeds Stupidity
“Your species has the most amazing capacity for self-deception, matched only by it’s ingenuity when trying to destroy itself.” ~The Seventh Doctor, Remembrance of the Daleks The human race never fails to dismay me at times. Like when, following an amusing snippet in this week’s New Scientist’s Feedback section, I chanced to read the reviews [...]Archive
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November 7, 2005 by graham
How it Happened, According to Isaac
I don’t normally go in for posting other authors’ work, but I thought I ought to share this because, though I’m a great Asimov fan, I’d never read it before and also because I came to read it via /. and that almost automagically makes it worth sharing. I came upon this story after reading [...]Archive
April 26, 2005 by graham