|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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Zika or dengue infections make you more appealing to mosquitoes
on 30 June | 2022
Infection with Zika or dengue viruses affects the microbiome of the skin, ramping up production of compounds that entice mosquitoes. But treatment with a common acne medication may cancel out this effect
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AI predicts crime a week in advance with 90 per cent accuracy
on 30 June | 2022
An artificial intelligence that scours crime data can predict the location of crimes in the coming week with up to 90 per cent accuracy, but there are concerns how systems like this can perpetuate bias
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UK mushroom growing uses 100,000 m³ of peat a year – can we do better?
on 30 June | 2022
Peat bogs are an important carbon store, so mushroom growers are searching for a way to grow their produce on other substrates
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Self-charging buoy could harness wave power to monitor the oceans
on 30 June | 2022
A buoy powered by the movement of waves could be used to sense water levels for early flood warning systems or to check long-term water quality
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Life expectancy of Native American peoples falls 4.7 years since 2019
on 30 June | 2022
Amid the pandemic, the life expectancy of American Indian or Alaska Native people is thought to have fallen by nearly five years from 2019 to 2021, the biggest decline of any ethnic group in the US
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Carbon monoxide foam in the rectum eases bowel disease in mice
on 29 June | 2022
It's best known as a deadly poison, but in low doses, carbon monoxide can have therapeutic benefits for conditions like inflammatory bowel disease and cancer. Now, researchers may have found a way to deliver the treatment safely in a foam
|DAYS UNTIL THE CIRCUS
|General
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Supreme Court limits Biden's power to cut...
on 30 June | 2022 at 15:55
The landmark ruling curbs federal power to limit greenhouse gas emissions in a setback for President Biden.
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Patrice Lumumba: DR Congo buries tooth of...
on 30 June | 2022 at 15:15
The tooth is all that remains of the murdered independence leader whose body was dissolved in acid.
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Calais migrant crisis: 15 arrested over Channel...
on 30 June | 2022 at 13:28
The deaths of 27 people in November was one of the deadliest incidents in the English Channel.
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Vladimir Putin hits back at G7 leaders' topless...
on 30 June | 2022 at 13:27
Russia's president says it would be "disgusting" to see leaders who mocked his macho image strip off.
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China's President Xi arrives in Hong Kong for...
on 30 June | 2022 at 12:40
The president says Hong Kong has "risen from the ashes" - critics accuse China of crushing freedoms.
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Snake Island: Why Russia couldn't hold on to...
on 30 June | 2022 at 12:27
Russia claims it is a gesture of goodwill, but the withdrawal from a Black Sea rock is a big defeat.
