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Showing posts with label Science. Show all posts
Monday, 12 August 2013

Physics on the Metro

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Have you ever spotted how the air moves on metro trains? On ordinary trains with short carriages there is often a flow of air through the ...
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Friday, 2 August 2013

Prince Rupert's legacy

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Watching a TV programme recently (which is something that I rarely do) I was reminded of the incredible properties of glass.  Can you imagi...
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Saturday, 27 July 2013

BBC film crews

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Having been somewhat involved with the workings of a BBC film crew yesterday, for a programme that will be hosted by Richard Hammond, I am l...
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Sunday, 7 July 2013

Skeptical about Skeptoid - go for green instead!

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The Skeptoid podcast has been one of my favourites for two or three years, and Brian Dunning's analyses of the topics that he covers ge...
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Saturday, 6 July 2013

New RDFRS newletter revealed

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The Richard Dawkins Foundation(s) for Reason and Science (RDFRS) have released a newsletter, the first one being available here .  (As you m...
Friday, 5 July 2013

Downloading consciousness?

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Have you heard of the ' 2045 Project '?  I started to hear a few whispers about this fascinating and seemingly impossible idea recen...
Thursday, 4 July 2013

Does Creation science have any convincing arguments?

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Oxford Skeptics in the Pub hosted Peter Harrison this week.  He is based at St Andrews University (of which I am a graduate) so it was fun ...
Tuesday, 2 July 2013

Fast trains or fusion?

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The surprising thing is that someone else has finally noticed that we are not spending enough money on developing fusion as the power sourc...
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Thursday, 27 June 2013

Taking rice cereusly

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Yes that was a deliberate mis-spelling, and yes it was meant to sound like 'seriously'. Why is it that we are warned not to reheat...
Tuesday, 25 June 2013

JET - 30 years old, and still state-of-the-art!

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Today is the 30th anniversary of the first day of operation of the Joint European Torus, JET, and it is still the most successful fusion dev...
Tuesday, 18 June 2013

Quarantine

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Sometimes we find that familiar words have surprising backgrounds.  Today was one of those times. I know the word ' quarantine ' i...
Sunday, 16 June 2013

Dennett's Tools for Thinking

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I find it very interesting and informative and in fact generally pleasurable to listen to philosopher, ' horseman of the apocalypse ...
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Thursday, 30 May 2013

The Times carries outrageous MMR headline

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Seeing a copy of UK newspaper The Times today I was outraged to see the headline " Babies at risk from MMR jab timebomb ".  After...
Saturday, 25 May 2013

Perspectives on the Cambrian Explosion

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I must have been listening to too much pro-ID propaganda!  (I have!)  The proponents of Intelligent Design put up a superb, almost-convinci...
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Wednesday, 15 May 2013

The bite of the honey bee

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Yes - I meant bite, not flight, and honey bee, not bumble bee.  But having misused the name of a famous piece of music for rhetorical purpos...
Tuesday, 14 May 2013

Should psychics be prosecuted?

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If psychics offer their services to the police in order to solve a mystery or a crime and it all goes horribly wrong, which party should be ...
Friday, 10 May 2013

200W from The Earth

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200 watts!  That is the amount of energy that the Earth/Sun system is emitting as gravitational energy as they orbit each other - according ...
Friday, 3 May 2013

Adam Rutherford at Oxford Skeptics

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The speaker at Oxford Skeptics in the Pub this week was one of the best yet.  Adam Rutherford engaged an audience of about 60, speaking on t...
Friday, 19 April 2013

The Baghdad Batteries

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When do you think batteries were invented?  200 years ago or 2000? I tend to believe in the former, but some claim that some Sumerian arti...
Wednesday, 17 April 2013

Discovery Institute's latest 'divine comedy'

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It is not unusual for The Discovery Institute's podcast, ID the Future to be filled with pseudo-scientific nonsense (in the style that...