by Tom | Sep 7, 2012 | Reading
Fabulous. One of the great interviews. I liked both of them by the end. (flagged as malware: http://www.theskinny.co.uk/comedy/features/302787-david_hasselhoff_do_you_guys_still_like_runrig)
by Tom | Sep 6, 2012 | Government, Reading, Science
Feynman nails it, as always. Can we say this to the reshuffleshambles lot? The rest of the article is a great selection of his thinking too. … as I’d like to show Galileo our world, I must show him something with a great deal of shame. If we look away from the...
by Tom | Sep 5, 2012 | Reading, Science
Hurricane Paths on Planet Earth. A nice representation of all of the recorded typhoons / hurricanes since 1851. Fascinating.
by Tom | Sep 5, 2012 | Reading
Unsettling reading pointing to the real difficulty we will have feeding 9bn people (PDF) using modern agricultural and rearing methods. Technology (“ink-jet” printed meat, for example) could get us there, but I am aware of few obvious candidates even in...
by Tom | Sep 4, 2012 | Reading, View
The Wachowskis’ World beyond “The Matrix†: The New Yorkerhas a long but interesting look at the development of the film of David Mitchell’s book. In related news, I hadn’t realised one of the Wachowski brothers was now a sister.
by Tom | Aug 31, 2012 | Reading
The 15 Funniest Autocorrects From August 2012 are indeed funny. They build slowly in hilarity, but had me snorting by the end.