February 2012
3 posts
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“I don’t know if I’ve spelt my name right, I’ve never had to...”
– Victoria Solomon (some assumptions made around the spelling)
July 2011
1 post
June 2011
1 post
May 2011
2 posts
April 2011
3 posts
“I will apologise for faithlessness, neglect, deceit, cruelty, unkindness, vanity...”
March 2011
6 posts
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“In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by...”
– Paul Dirac
Getting a break from what seems like non-stop work tomorrow for a trip to Cardiff University.
I just realised my phone autocorrects “Uhuh” to “Ubuntu”. Viva la Linux.
Wales doesn’t end at Cardiff! Petition to electrify the rail line from London to Swansea: http://bit.ly/e9P93F
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Wales doesn't end at Cardiff! Please help by... →
February 2011
2 posts
January 2011
6 posts
KOALAS ARE BETTER THAN PANDAS
This is rather important,
memorize,
and don’t forget.
You will be quizzed.
WatchShortest. Concert video. Ever.
December 2010
15 posts
2 tags
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“Wearily on I go, pain and misery my only companions. And vast intelligence, of...”
– Marvin, the Paranoid Android (via fuckyeahexistentialism)
I’m reblogging this partially because of the Marvin quote, but mostly because it comes via fuckyeahexistentialism. To be honest I think whoever started that blog needs to take a long hard look at themselves.
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Downing College Cambridge vs. Magdalen College...
Paxman: "King John of Scotland, elected in 1292 following the death of Margaret of Norway was a member of which royal house which later gave it's name to an Oxford college?"
Liberadzki of Downing College Cambridge: (speaking quietly) "um
... Oxford college? I can't think of any. (turns to Paxman) Magdalen?"
Paxman: "Hah, I love the fact you can't think of any. So wonderfully dismissive."
November 2010
15 posts
“Religion… has certain ideas at the heart of it which we call sacred or holy or...”
– Douglas Adams (via lightweightangerbomb)
“To my mind, the greatest harm posed by the avalanche of nonsense we have seen in...”
– Ben Goldacre
“It’s a tough Galaxy. If you want to survive out here, you need to know where...”
– The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy (via with-out-wax)
Watch
BBC - Scientists capture antimatter →
physicsphysics:
It’s a staple of science fiction: the energy source that powers the Starship Enterprise, and the explosive charge fuelling a dastardly plot to blow up the vatican in Dan Brown’s Angels and Demons.
But now antimatter has moved from the realm of science fiction - or more accurately science theory - to science fact. Researchers working on the Alpha experiment at Cern have...
