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Leicester
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No comments on LeicesterI’m finally getting around to putting some of the photos I’ve taken in the past six months online. I’ve just uploaded a few random photos from Leicester.
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College Girls
It strikes me that, so far, the Channel 4 documentary College Girls is giving people a very skewed view of life in Oxbridge. I understand that documentaries have to concentrate on the more interesting aspects of their subjects, which is why the first episode was about a student activist refusing to pay her university fees…
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The BA Festival of Science
Thanks to a generous grant from Trinity College at Cambridge University, I was able to attend the full week-long British Association for the Advancement of Science Annual Festival of Science in Leicester this year, from September 9th to 13th. This is a brief report of what I learned there.
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BBC and China
Now that I’ve subscribed to the BBC RSS feeds, I’m automatically notified when new stories are added. I’m also told when old stories are updated, and while most of the time this is irritating, occasionally you see something interesting. Take this story entitled China grapples with net dilemma, for example. Over the course of a…
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Orange
It seems there’s bad news for all Orange customers. According to their press release they’ll be scrapping all their old tarriffs at the start of October, and introducing a new set that on the face of it seem significantly more expensive. I believe the only good news is that current Orange customers can keep their…
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First post
Our first entry for First Words is in, from David Brin! True, I know him probably the most out of everyone I’ve contacted, but small steps and all that, eh?
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Soda Straw Tensegrity Structures
My next shopping list: 15 straws, 60 paper clips and 30 rubber bands. After all, who wouldn’t want to make a tensegrity dodecahedron?
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Real or not?
Is this photo of the Capitol Building in DC real, or computer altered/generated? (those of you who know already aren’t allowed to say).
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First Words
So here I am, emailing every single famous and semi-famous and should-be-famous person I know or have ever come into contact with* (or even less) about First Words, and also getting ready to send forth a huge wave of actual, physical letters. So far, the response has been of deafening silence. Not really a surprise,…
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