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  • Science & Industry Research Act 1949

    This was a difficult link to find.

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  • Photoshopping

    Worth1000 has some really amusing Photosphopped images. The Chimera Competition is especially good.

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  • Historical climate change in Europe

    Related to my earlier post on the science of The Day After Tomorrow, is a good article on historical climate change in Europe. Note that changes occur over decades, not weeks. This is still rapid and the historical economic and social impacts are sobering.

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  • The Dream

    In November of 2001 my wife and I spent a week in Paris for our honeymoon. There was barely a waking moment of our days and nights that we did not spend exploring the fascinating museums and galleries, historic streets, buildings and churches of that wonderful city. At the end of that trip we promised…

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  • Three Weeks in Europe

    After years of planning and a number of false starts, we have finally set a date and booked tickets for our three week tour of Europe. Now we have to work out where we actually want to go!

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  • The Day After Tomorrow – Crazy Science

    The Day After Tomorrow is a big Hollywood movie portraying devastating weather phenomena as the world’s climate is suddenly flipped over to a new ice age by global warming. Tornadoes in Los Angeles, huge hailstones in Tokyo and a giant storm surge flooding Manhattan. Like most big-budget movies, it’s better to leave your brains at…

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