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Monthly Archives: February 2024
Opportunities
It’s a horrible word, redundant. ‘No longer needed or useful; superfluous’. I don’t feel superfluous, but have to admit to feeling a little less than useful. Some people have been very kind, noting my efforts to continue to support my … Continue reading Continue reading
What I Read In February
Barbra Streisand: My Name Is Barbra I first came across Barbra Streisand with a fluffy comic song in my parents’ record collection. It was ‘Second-Hand Rose’, which I now know was written in 1921 and originally performed by the music-hall … Continue reading Continue reading
Posted in Music, Writing & Reading
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Notes from Open Research London, 12 February 2024
Earlier this month Open Research London held a half day event at the Francis Crick Institute to mark Love Your Data week, comprising six half-hour talks. The very engaging and interesting talks were focused on research data discovery, with detours … Continue reading Continue reading
Posted in AI, Journal publishing, Open Science, Preprints
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Games Without Frontiers
My enthusiasm for sport has always surpassed my ability. Except for soccer. At school, me and John Grant would always play in defence and hope the ball never came our way. I still don’t see the point of that one. … Continue reading Continue reading
What (and How) Should We Teach our Children?
In the world of social media and ChatGPT, a post-Covid world and a world where climate change and war put everything and everyone under new strains and worse, what should our students – at school or university – be taught … Continue reading Continue reading
Posted in broad and balanced, curriculum, Curriculum for Excellence, education, Simon Margison
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Family Tree
We’re blessed to have a larger-than-usual garden (for these parts). Legend has it that when they built this development at the arse-end of the 1980s, what-was-to-become our plot was down for 2 (or even 3) houses, but they didn’t get … Continue reading Continue reading
Posted in 15MinutePost, nature, Silliness, walnut
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No News Is Good News
During a group discussion at work (as you both know, by day I’m with the Submerged Log Company) a colleague noted that among the various things one wouldn’t be allowed do with human subjects, one would be to deprive them … Continue reading Continue reading
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In which we fast-forward
The phrase bleak midwinter was first coined by the English poet Christina Rossetti in 1872 and went viral when composer Gustav Holst incorporated her text into a carol a few decades later. Although the words are clearly meant to evoke … Continue reading Continue reading
Posted in Domestic bliss, Gardening
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2023 – Top Ten, plus one
In a surprising twist, here are my top 10 photographs from 2023… only a couple of months into 2024! As usual, they also live in a Flickr set that you can explore here. Craig McRae, Royal Agricultural Winter Fair (November) … Continue reading Continue reading
Posted in concert photography, Hobbies, Music, nature, Photography, racing
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Hunstanton Sand
I’ve just started reading a book called The Spirit of Enquiry by Susannah Gibson, celebrating the 200th anniversary of the Cambridge Philosophical Society, an interesting society of which I was once a committee member (as well as a prize-winner). I … Continue reading Continue reading
Posted in Adam Sedgwick, Chladni's plate, Communicating Science, lectures, standing waves
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