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Posted on December 16, 2017December 16, 2017

Honesty on Google vs Facebook – a footnote from John Lanchester

An essay worth reading in full on Facebook which contains this amusing footnote: Facebook already had a huge amount of information about people and their social networks and their professed…

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Posted on November 28, 2017

Could a novice beat Magnus Carlsen with a month to prepare? (Spoiler alert: No)

Someone said that headlines formulated as questions almost always have the answer “No.” I came across this column on Chess.com which is a reaction to this Wall Street Journal article…

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Posted on November 22, 2017

The surprising complications of tide-watching

Hugh Aldersey-Williams’ “Tide: The Science and Lore of the Greatest Force on Earth” has a title that sounds hyperbolic, but is endearing in its combination of a certain rhetorical restraint…

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Posted on November 13, 2017November 13, 2017

“The whirligig of time” : A note on Fr Pat Noise

Seeing that this documentary is to be broadcast next Saturday I thought it an apt time, though any time would be an apt time, to post about my own research…

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Posted on November 12, 2017

Elizabeth Taylor’s Gloomy Sundays

From Elizabeth Taylor’s “Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont”: On Sundays – especially p.m. – Ludo was always depressed. Something lowering was in the air : at least three times during…

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Posted on November 12, 2017November 13, 2017

“For my sins”

In Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont, Elizabeth Taylor expertly sketches the lives of the elderly long-term residents of the Claremont Hotel, a somwhat shabby-genteel premises on the Cromwell Road which…

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Posted on November 6, 2017November 6, 2017

Caddisfly Larva video by Liam Marsh

Back in February I reblogged an interview with underwater photographer Liam Marsh. I am pleased to report Liam has now won a British Wildlife Photography Award for a video of…

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Posted on November 6, 2017

The Droste Effect (nearly) in the Domhnach Airgid

The Droste Effect is the name given to an image containing a smaller version of that image which contains therefore a smaller version of that image and so on ,…

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