by Tom | Jan 27, 2010 | Reading
I very much like the idea of a walking route calculator that avoids main roads and pollution. Seems to work OK on the “route home when the tubes and buses are closed”.
by Tom | Jan 27, 2010 | Reading
Truly marvellous American humour. “I wear a size 10 1/2 or 11 shoe, but that’s an American size. What’s that in England? Five pounds? A litre?”. “13 volumes is 15 volumes too many”. The discomfiting of the interviewer is just...
by Tom | Jan 26, 2010 | Reading
Don’t install anti-parking bollards like this:Don’t try and create energy from nothing – I’m amazed so many people are still trying.Don’t repackage a $500 blu-ray player and sell it at $3,500.Don’t make a Thunder Generator at...
by Tom | Jan 19, 2010 | Reading, Science
Whole Earth Discipline has some interesting non-mainstream views on what we might actually have to do to rein in and reverse the damage to the environment we have already caused. I particularly liked the idea that agriculture is possibly the most non-natural thing we...
by Tom | Jan 19, 2010 | Government, Reading, Science
In the light of the discussions on addressing the substantial number of deaths directly attributable to drink, it is refreshing (boom boom) to find a source of reasoned analysis of the effects of campaigns on drink and drugs (one of which suggests that a five-year US...
by Tom | Jan 19, 2010 | Reading, Reviews
Lovely format (driving from A to B and chatting) and great interviews to have on in the background when you fancy a change from classical, heavy metal or the Archers.
