Brent Rasmussen over at Unscrewing the Inscrutable has a great post for dealing with creationists and young earthers; two annoying, braindead, anti-science groups I’ve had dealings with in the past [1]. Ancestral Magnitudes “My grandfather wasn’t no monkey!”, “You think we came from slime?!”, and “man, if you want to believe your great^100 grandpa was …
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Fenchurch Street to Limehouse – The long way. Part one: Fenchurch St to the Thames
A couple of weeks ago I took a ‘cruise’ down the Thames from Tower Bridge to Greenwhich, on the way I noticed and had pointed out many interesting things and places along the river. Saturday I decided to go explore some of those on the North bank of the Thames on foot [1]. The first …
updates
Sorry for lack up recent updates. I’ve left the laptop at work (my preffered system for writings posts involves the latop a nice cool beer and a period of sitting on the roof in the early evening) and it is too bloomin’ hot to sit at the computer. There are a couple of science posts …
Fuck!
Several explosions on London Underground , possible train crash at Kings Cross station, bus explosion at Russell Square. update: 12:30 Now claiming 2 dead, many injured. 7 explosions. And of course ID cards would have prevented all this [/sarcasm] update: 17:56 Well the story is all over the news now. at least 32 dead, many …
Off for a bit. Or Why I lothe and detest and want to maimstabmurderdeathkill powerpoint.
Tomorrow sees me heading off to Cardiff for the ISSC-15 conference. Just under a week of geeking my particular variety of science with a few hundred like minded individuals at the UK’s premier surface science conference. Looking at the program, the will be talks on everything from ablation (my field) to catalysis to xenon adsorption …