|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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What will be the climate impact of a new coal mine in the UK?
on 8 December | 2022
The UK government says a proposed new coal mine in Cumbria will have a ‘broadly neutral’ effect on greenhouse gas emissions, but its climate change advisers disagree
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AI spots deepfake videos of Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy
on 7 December | 2022
A deepfake detector designed to identify unique facial expressions and hand gestures could spot manipulated videos of world leaders such as Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Vladimir Putin
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Diversity helped mammals survive asteroid that killed the dinosaurs
on 7 December | 2022
The conventional view of the age of the dinosaurs is that mammals lived in the shadows until the day the asteroid hit, but a new analysis shows they were already evolutionarily primed to take over the world
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Self-healing robot recovers from being stabbed then walks off
on 7 December | 2022
A simple robot has sensors that can detect when they are damaged, stop the robot, self-heal and instruct the robot to start moving again
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Everything you need to know about the US megadrought
on 7 December | 2022
From individual water use to lessons from past civilisations, here's what our Parched Earth series revealed about the impact of the megadrought in south-western North America
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Marine sciences must cast off an imperial legacy of ocean exploitation
on 7 December | 2022
A century and a half after HMS Challenger embarked on the first global survey of the ocean, some ideas from the era still linger. They urgently need to be left behind, says Helen Scales
|DAYS UNTIL THE CIRCUS
|General
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Brittney Griner: Russia frees US basketball star...
on 8 December | 2022 at 16:21
Brittney Griner flies home to the US while notorious arms dealer Viktor Bout returns to Russia.
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Mohsen Shekari: Iran carries out first execution...
on 8 December | 2022 at 15:48
Mohsen Shekari was convicted of "enmity against God" after what an activist called a "show trial".
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Putin vows to continue hitting Ukraine's power...
on 8 December | 2022 at 15:35
The Russian president has vowed to continue attacking Ukraine's energy infrastructure.
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Brittney Griner: Who is the freed US basketball...
on 8 December | 2022 at 15:25
Griner, who was freed in a prisoner swap, is arguably the greatest-ever female basketball player.
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Dina Boluarte: Peru's first female president
on 8 December | 2022 at 14:48
The 60-year-old ex-lawyer was sworn in as Peru's president after her predecessor was impeached.
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Celine Dion postpones tour dates as she reveals...
on 8 December | 2022 at 14:46
The star has Stiff Person Syndrome, a neurological disorder with features of an autoimmune disease.
