The Fullerene Experiment

Richard Feynman said the whole mystery of quantum physics lies in the two-slit experiment, which showed that not only light but particles of matter are not only particles but also waves. I think the mystery of everything does.  How can...

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“Doing Our Bit for the Environment”

“Doing Our Bit for the Environment” There is a widespread misunderstanding of the so-called greenhouse effect which is fatally undermining the world’s attempts to save itself from climate catastrophe.  Nowhere is this error more clearly demonstrated than in Lord Lawson’s book An...

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Building Jerusalem out of Grass

Currently there is much debate amongst politicians as to how we are going to meet the supposedly 4tr cost of replacing fossil fuels in the UK. The likelihood that nothing effective will be done because Tory backbenchers...

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The one thing the past is not is past

The one thing the past is not is past.

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How precious and mysterious is our freedom

These days I have many issues with The Selflish Gene, but, nevertheless, despite that this is a book telling us all the way through up to the last page the precise opposite, Richard Dawkins ends it with such a thrilling...

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