Apr
12
2023
Back from holiday in Devon. The peak point was seeing one early morning calm and beautiful light falling on next door’s chimney. There were birds courting in the bushes below. It was that day’s delivery of the Milankovitch cycles...
Apr
10
2023
Mrs. Thatcher used her reputation as the Iron Lady to good effect in seeing off the Labour Party, Galtieri, and the coal miners. But behind that she was a clever and compromising politician. Despite her no no no to Europe...
Apr
04
2023
From Science Daily
With a collapse of this deep ocean current, the oceans below 4000 metres would stagnate.
"This would trap nutrients in the deep ocean, reducing the nutrients available to support marine life near the ocean surface," says Prof England.
Co-author...
Apr
01
2023
All this fuss about whether some Yorkshire players uttered a few racist words shows what a state of self-delusion we are in. People getting so upset about racism have no qualms about grinding non-white people into the dust through...
Mar
31
2023
Stuffy old James and gentle John sone of thunder? volatile and unreliable Peter rock? Martha Darling don't fuss.
Mar
29
2023
Is it going to rain? Don’t think so. I think I might just venture out. Quark! Quark! Ferdinand won’t – Thwit! Schlurp Schlurp ugunk! Delicious - Ferdinand won’t fertilize my eggs. He says I’m not sexy he doesn’t think I’m slimy enough. I don’t care. Silly old...
Mar
23
2023
Damien Hirst’s Shark
I am in the camp that thinks the best-known examples of contemporary art are rubbish. I say this because my underlying belief is that, like the subatomic particles of which they are ultimately made up, human beings have...
Mar
23
2023
Of all the good cats in the world/ Our Webbie is the goodest/ He really is a very good cat/I think that cat's Buddhist. Supply own tune and name of cat
Feb
17
2023
https://thomj.co.uk/as-an-electron-has-a-positron-every-good-has-an-evil/
Feb
17
2023
Anything that has got potency will fall into the hands of evil or stupid people who will misuse it for their own purposes. I don’t stop believing in science because the Nazis were Social Darwinists or because scientists developed...