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Carbon — to capture or not to capture

This came up on 2nd November 2024 (give or take a day), a broadcaster objecting to a carbon capture...

The Azolla Event: when is a fern not a fern?

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Betelgeuse, Gamow, and a Big Red Horse

There has been a lot of talk recently of Betelgeuse possibly going supernova this century or not...

Climate Change, the Walrus and the Carpenter

I have recently watched two videos on climate change by Sabine Hossenfelder. The first one...

Robert H Olley

Until recently, I worked in the Polymer Physics Group of the Physics Department at the University of Reading.

I would describe myself as a Polymer Morphologist. I am not an astronaut,

The Head Of A Starfish

Jul 10 2013 | comment(s)

Sir Archibald Henry Bodkin, KCB (1862–1957) was our British Director of Public Prosecutions from 1920 to 1930. He particularly took a stand against the publication of what he saw as ‘obscene’ literature.

The Arnhem Factor

Jul 03 2013 | comment(s)

Anglo-Saxon King Seeking Diet Advice?

Jun 29 2013 | comment(s)

The Giant that Got Away

Jun 07 2013 | comment(s)

What with all the current talk of GMOs, I would remind folks here that some 20^th century methods also raised fears. A more “traditional” method has been to double the chromosome content of plants — one well known example is Triticale is the hybrid of wheat (Triticum turgidum) and rye (Secale cereale). This, of course, should be familiar to those who remember the Star Trek episode “The Trouble With Tribbles”. When crossing wheat and rye, wheat is used as the female parent and rye as the male parent (pollen

Forever Now

Jun 04 2013 | comment(s)

So it was that in the summer of 1988 I discovered America.

Now doesn’t that sound like a very ‘arty’ sort of statement? It comes from Forever Today by Deborah Wearing, and though the lady herself has a musical background, there are parts of this book which should be of great interest to Science 2.0 readers. To give the context, here is the start of the book description.