Some geometrical video
With thanks to Patrick Crozier‘s Twitter feed, this, posted by Steve Stewart-Williams. He got it from Denny Borsboom, who says (at his Facebook page), this: Different scientific models can have...
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Man with food
The summer of February 2019 has now ended, but I still have some photo-memories of it to stick up here. These photos, for instance, of a man whom GodDaughter2 and I encountered in Hyde Park, back on...
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A different way to open a car door
Today a friend needed some rather dramatic medical attention, and I dropped by to provide what I hope was a little moral support. Outside the place where this was happening, I encountered this cute...
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A device for measuring neutrinos being transported through Karlsruhe
Here: It reminds me of the scene at the end of Starship Troopers (a scene which I may now be imagining (but I think it happened)) where the victorious Starship Troopers celebrate their capture of The...
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Nuclear Rabbits From Outta Space?
On June 13th 2008 I was wandering about in Quimper, photoing photos. Mostly the photos were of such things as Quimper Cathedral with its twin spires, photoers photoing Quimper Cathedral with its twin...
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An historic weather forecast
I have no idea what it was like storming a Normandy beach, on June 6th 1944. I also don’t really know how they do weather forecasting, but in recent years, because of being an amateur photoer, I have...
View ArticleBMNB QotD
Peter Franklin, at UnHerd, quotes number ten of Dominic Cummings’s intellectual heroes, Murray Gell-Mann, saying this: If I have seen further than others it is because I am surrounded by dwarfs. A nice...
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Vapour trails
I photoed this vapour trail in December 2005. I’m pretty sure I have others, but this was the first vapour trail I found in the archives: And I think that it is indeed a vapour trail. But now take a...
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Creatures hitting the news in the USA
I’m not just talking about the hero dog who helped to catch an austere religious scholar, whose austere religious scholarship inspired him also to become a rapist and a torturer. I’m also talking about...
View ArticleBird keeping its head still
Indeed: Incredible demonstration of hover control and head stabilization from a kestrel surfing the breeze along the top of South Stack Cliffs, Wales, captured by @ZedAnthony pic.twitter.com/VfsA1aqAGr...
View ArticleNiall Ferguson on networks versus hierarchies
I have been reading Niall Ferguson’s The Square and the Tower, and so far am enjoying it. It’s about how historians have tended to emphasise the impact of orderly hierarchies because these leave big...
View ArticleHow big creatures assemble themselves
Speaking of animals, as I like to do of a Friday, how does Life get from little tiny single cell thingies to, you know, animals. Well, somewhat like this: This school of fish swimming together looks...
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The Nurture Only view being, in this case, the claim that all the differences in behaviour and attitude – with regard to such things as casual sex, attaching importance to physical sexual allure, and...
View ArticleMale seahorse delivering babies
Here. Amazing. I never knew this. At all. Far too good to wait until next Friday. (Friday being my usual day for cats and other creatures stuff.) I Twitter-follow Steve Stewart-Williams, and strongly...
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Lovebirds
Friday being my day for cats and other creatures, and today being everyone else’s day for romance, here’s a couple to celebrate the day: Number 13 of this collection of twenty five non-human romantics....
View ArticleA very near miss
Tweets Shaun: This is a picture of an asteroid crater in Arizona … Look how close it came to hitting the visitors centre … You’ll have to follow the link to see how near the visitors centre was to...
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My supermoon photo
Before I forget, I need to report on my photoing of last Thursday’s supermoon. Alerted by the media, I made my way to the roof of my block of flats and scanned the horizon at the appointed hour. I...
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