Moon
The first photograph of the moon was taken in 1840 by English scientist and historian, John William Draper. 185 years later, my Nikon P950’s 83X optical zoom captured this.
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Glass preserved human remains at Herculaneum … and other things
Share You said: I’ll relate a story and ask you if you understand and can explain, in simple terms, the physics involved. “Mount Vesuvius was so hot it turned a man’s brain into glass when it erupted, fascinating new research shows. A piece of dark glass was found in the man’s skull, who died in … Read more
AI cracks superbug problem in two days that took scientists years
21/02/2025 It is extremely rare for me to use third party content on my website but, due to the profound, (though simple), telling of this story that I’ve copy and pasted directly from BBC online news, we get an opportunity to digest and fully comprehend just what the potential for AI is likely to involve … Read more
Written in stone?
The Folly of Vanishing Words: From Stone to the Ether and Beyond Long before humanity flirted with the ephemeral, it sought permanence. The Sumerians, arguably the architects of written language, saw fit to carve their transactions, laws, and chronicles into clay tablets. These tablets,tangible, weighty, and enduring,survived millennia, whispering the secrets of ancient commerce and … Read more
Please be patient because this story, (as long as it takes to tell), is worth the telling. Charm … and a brick. OK. New Year’s Eve was a bust and, feeling old and irrelevant in the company of so many youngsters celebrating the end of 2023 in my beloved local watering hole, I survived only … Read more
Prostate Cancer treatment My story relates to a perceived recognition of a NHS service under duress and strain during and following the C19 pandemic – to the point where I received negligent care and a life threatening DVT AND a paralysed foot as a result of a poorly executed biopsy. (I was a Warfarin patient … Read more
Frampton’s pies
Morning. If I were trying to calculate a steak and kidney pie’s calorific content, I guess I could separate the pastry crust and then weight that and the steak and kidney but, without knowing accurate details of steak, kidney, pastry and rich gravy used to bond the delicious “home made” pie, (baked on my friends … Read more