|RECOMMENDED RAMBLINGS
|Carrying the Fire
“I know that I would be a liar or a fool if I said that I have the best of the three Apollo 11 seats, but I can say with truth and equanimity that I am perfectly satisfied with the one I have" Michael Collins Whilst everyone remembers Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin,...
|Extinct Artist
"I have always painted things I am obsessed with and always gone with my heart regardless of convention." Dave White came to prominence as the pioneer of the 'Sneaker Art' movement, reinterpreting popular trainers as oil portraits. He has is own signature Air Jordan...
|Perseverance Pays
“If we see a hedgehog staring in the camera, we would know there’s current and certainly ancient life on Mars, but based on our past experiences, such an event is extremely unlikely. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence, and the discovery that life...
| A New BMW Club to Join
I thought with my mentality having switched from the thunderous roar of V8s to the futuristic hum of electrics, the M5 itch was scratched. I was wrong. I can't remember when it happened or even how but without doubt the BMW M5 is in my psyche. It crept in there. It...
|Keep Rising Sir Lewis
I get kids from all different cultures and nationalities coming up to me now, all wanting to be F1 drivers. They feel the sport is open to everyone. I have had a passion for motorsport from a young age, in particular formula one (F1). I don't know where it came from....
|Season’s Greetings (2020)
Wishing everyone a Merry Christmas and Peaceful (COVID free) New Year Christmas 2020 I think it goes without saying that we are all glad that this year is finishing and there is some light towards the end of the tunnel. Especially, when we as a family have beaten...
|Breaking the COVID bread
There were some upsides to the whole lockdown and pandemic. For instance, the enclave I live in was triggered to start a WhatsApp group. Something we should have done years ago but it took the 'house arrest' we were under to initiate it. This simple act has...
|Apologetic Integration
It is rather a disenchanting moment when the doctrine your parents subscribed to and expounded to you was not the armour you thought it was.It is a lie when people say 'children do not see colour' in reference to a person's skin tone. They do. It is just that they...
|Finding Colour in Black
It’s the difference between listening to Shakespeare being read by Brain Blessed instead of Patrick Stewart. Both would be enjoyable but one would be better nuanced. My younger brother had a great knack of extracting Sony Walkmans from my father. They were meant to be...
|Season’s Greetings (2019)
Wishing everyone a Merry Christmas and Peaceful New Year Christmas 2019 This year's Christmas card was made up of photographs taken at Hyde Park's Winter Wonderland and Adobe Stock. The visit to the park was for Kitty's Birthday but sadly she couldn't attend due to a...
|Memo to David and the Cabinet
Can we address the issues now facing us? Can you put your own self-promotion aside?Dear elected politicians of any sort, please can we address the issues now facing us? Can you put your own self-promotion aside? For those of you who are career politicians and have no...
|End of the Big Dream?
It's unlikely we will ever see a commercial avaiation success story like the Boeing 747 It was conceived on a fishing trip between the CEOs of PAN AM and Boeing. When finally created in 1969 it was the biggest airliner in the world, first wide bodied and 'two tier'...
|HAPPENING ELSEWHERE
|Science
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Quantum computer made of 6 super-sized atoms could imitate the brain
on 13 August | 2022
Simulations of a quantum computer made of six rubidium atoms suggest it could run a simple brain-inspired algorithm that can learn to remember and make simple decisions
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Saiga antelopes have increased 10-fold after mass die-off in 2015
on 12 August | 2022
More than a million large-nose antelopes now roam the Kazakhstan steppe, a big rebound from the 130,000 animals left after a fatal bacterial disease killed half of the population
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Physicists work out how many moons Earth could have
on 12 August | 2022
Simulations suggest that Earth could theoretically host two more moons the size of the one we've got now, or several smaller moons
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Monkeys in Bali use stones as sex toys to fill their leisure time
on 12 August | 2022
Male and female macaques in a Balinese sanctuary commonly use stone tools to masturbate, possibly because they have more leisure time than wild primates
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Interstellar meteorite may be awaiting discovery on the sea floor
on 12 August | 2022
A pair of astronomers say that classified US government sensors detected an interstellar meteor hitting Earth in 2014. Now they want to mount a $1.6 million expedition to find fragments of it on the sea floor
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Mars astronauts would get unsafe radiation doses even with shielding
on 12 August | 2022
Simulations show that a 1000-day mission to Mars would expose astronauts to radiation doses above 1 sievert, even with metal shielding
|DAYS UNTIL THE CIRCUS
|General
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Australia: Gunman charged over Canberra airport...
on 14 August | 2022 at 21:40
No-one was injured in Sunday's incident, which sent passengers running in fear.
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Fireworks explosion rocks Armenia shopping market
on 14 August | 2022 at 21:13
Video footage shows people running from the huge blast, which killed at least three people.
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Tropical Storm Meari leaves trail of devastation...
on 14 August | 2022 at 19:13
Aerial video shows the extent of damage after some areas saw 50% more rain than expected in a month.
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Kenya elections 2022: Raila Odinga and William...
on 14 August | 2022 at 18:34
Raila Odinga and William Ruto are running neck and neck with almost half of the results confirmed.
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Cats to be freed from special lockdown in German...
on 14 August | 2022 at 16:44
Owners were ordered to keep their felines indoors to protect an endangered bird.
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Salman Rushdie's 'defiant sense of humour'...
on 14 August | 2022 at 15:53
The author was severely injured after being stabbed on stage at an event in New York State.
