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"One morning, I got up at dawn to enter a tunnel carved beneath the Staubbach Falls just outside town and gazed out through the torrent at the surrounding mountains while slowly being soaked by glacial spray. Who, I thought..."
"In the last parliament, a significant group of Labour and Conservative MPs felt the only escape from the tightening grip of militants in their party was to leave. They had the courage to put their careers on the line, to risk ostracism and put up with abuse. Some stood this time as Lib Dems, others as independents. They were wiped out. All of them. I suspect that those who stayed in the old parties have learned the value of obedience and cowardice."
"Uh-huh, I see. “Everything we see and touch is matter. For every matter particle there has to be an antimatter particle. During the Big Bang, antimatter was produced but what happened to it? Did it disappear over time?”
“We’re interested in the area before the Big Bang, when energy was high and that energy allows us to form fundamental particles. As we collide particles, it allows us to create ones that didn’t exist at this time – 13.8bn years back when energy was last this high.”
“Where the web was born.”
"So what’s the difference between the two? Patiently they explain. Antimatter is produced by lightning and cosmic rays, and is predicted by standard particle physics theories. Dark matter cannot be seen using light, which is why no one has found it yet. “Ah, I see,” I say..."
https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2019/dec/01/fun-physics-the-god-parti...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zU-zZqcAfzQ
But the summer of 1816 was historic not only in a literary sense... it was nicknamed “the Year Without a Summer.” In Switzerland, it was mid-June when the freakishly bad weather began — “an almost perpetual rain,” Mary recalled, with terrific thunderstorms rippling back and forth across the lake."
https://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/29/travel/lake-geneva-as-byron-and-shell...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H87yGvoCNHU
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"No Pressure"
Submitted by Captain Qalypso on
Data Analysis Researchers take note:
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/
Before and after the tinternet there were Christmas Cards ...
One a year.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=prGhk_Gvzwo
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/dec/17/keir-starmer-labour-lea...
lol
https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/shortcuts/2019/dec/17/why-dominic-cu...
The Cuckoos Nest
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"For those who spend too long on social media, it is now ingrained to the point of instinct to let people know you are living life better than them. This might seem illogical, when we all know that everyone – from Mick Jagger to your mum – is sitting on the sofa watching Horrid Henry on Netflix. But this instinct is, I think, especially strong in times of stress and anxiety, when no one knows if they are doing the right thing. And you know a really great way to feel better about your situation? Make other people feel worse about theirs..."
https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/2020/mar/30/self-isolate-giant-yacht...
Home is where the heart is..
Oh.
https://loetscher.ch/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HnYWmgSZdlM&list=RDm-DZQ80vEVI&index=18
Can't quite make me mind up ..
"The key challenge is to keep opposition measured and not be lured by the online anger at Mr Johnson. Most of the bile is coming from those who already hate him. Right now, a frightened public wants to believe in its government. The crisis may offer opportunities but Sir Keir must not seek to manufacture them. As one ally put it: “Strategically, either the government comes up smelling of roses or it does not. But it’s not in our control.” The government’s fate lies in how it is judged to have handled the crisis but that is not judgment the country is looking to make right now."
https://www.ft.com/content/d4eebcb6-726f-11ea-95fe-fcd274e920ca
Hmmm ..
https://www.thelocal.ch/20180822/what-a-trip-eight-great-swiss-inventions
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=22&v=HBOPFWmZCdM&feature=emb...
Aye
A Didgeridoo to stop you from yawning..
Ah, So
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-52098436
How, Now ... Busy?
The Ornamental.
"Within a couple of years, it was being used to wrap Toblerone chocolate bars and Maggi stock cubes. The rest is history."
lol
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMRtB6yEavU
An Innovative Approach
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"Other countries have been more open about the scientific evidence behind their decisions, and the UK’s approach has raised eyebrows overseas..."
""The scientists on Sage are among the most eminent in their fields," the spokesman said. "It is factually wrong and damaging to sensible public debate to imply their advice is affected by government advisers listening to discussions."
He added: "'Public confidence in the media has collapsed during this emergency partly because of ludicrous stories such as this.""
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/24/revealed-dominic-cummings-...
"But we don't know how much or how long they have to be exposed for UV light to have an effect."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpYVDamtymI
"“We’re making a bet on certain technologies that don’t exist at the scale or price point we need them to,” he said. “But if we want to get them, we need to start investing.”"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVPqlVOeh8s
Hmmm ..
"“It’s not only about how much carbon a forest can hold but also who traditionally uses the forest, how they might be kept out, and how biodiversity will be prioritized,”"
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/apr/23/microsoft-climate-cr...
Darn it... and we all thought HM Gov was consulting the tea leaves with some Comic .. ;-0
https://newsthump.com/2020/04/22/pestilence-to-leave-four-horsemen-of-ap...
An Under Estimation
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“I am not educated but I like things run in a professional way. So I would like my children to run the business professionally.”
"The first gemstone weighed 9.27kg, while the second weighed 5.103kg, a mines ministry spokesperson said.
Tanzanite is a gemstone found only in a small northern region of the east African nation."
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/jun/24/china-defies-court-order...
"According to a Tanzanian geologist, the circumstances that led to its formation 585 million years ago were so exceptional that the likelihood of finding tanzanite anywhere else on earth is one in a million, making it a thousand times rarer than diamonds."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=if8tC0KKWYU
"“Whilst the removal of the ugly 1960s building is most welcome, this misdirected redevelopment scheme seems to have evolved out of the public gaze, is focussed almost entirely on finance and is being driven by external funding rather than civic design.""
https://democracy.scarborough.gov.uk/documents/s88698/7.%2019057%20-%20A...
Hmm ... that old lift.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8YfNMyk4ko
Oh.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/formula1/51739796
"The document - which was circulated across the counties of England - was reissued after 1215 by successive kings through the years to 1300, meaning "there may have been 200 originals", said Prof Nicholas Vincent of the University of East Anglia, Norwich, who helped Prof Carpenter establish the Harvard document's authenticity and provenance.!"
https://www.northyorks.gov.uk/community-and-volunteering/community-proje...
Isn't that the new Town Council's job?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/ckgqn483plno
Nice Shot by the Way... ;-0
https://www.thisisthecoast.co.uk/news/local-news/board-chair-sought-to-h...
"Melodifestivalen has subsequently doubled down on its laissez-faire attitude to swearwords."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZnusVb7yjs
I wish people would stop editing things...
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2025/may/15/eurovision-song-con...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DnEEKZPfgM
Slow Horses.
Snow Patrol
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"They are unfathomably rare "freaks of nature" that have taken 1.6 billion years to emerge from the earth's mantle and end up on master jeweller Rohan Milne's work bench.
"They speak for themselves," Mr Milne said while polishing a ring at his Leederville workshop.
"When you're putting a beautiful vivid pink diamond into a piece and you're polishing it up, the colour just jumps out at you and it's amazing."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGQwf4tapSk
"Mast Upgrade could clear some of the hurdles to delivering clean, limitless energy for the grid.
Fusion differs from fission, the technology used by existing nuclear power plants, because it could release vast amounts of energy with little associated radioactivity. The £55m machine has taken seven years to build. Current nuclear energy relies on fission, where a heavy chemical element is split to produce lighter ones.
But nuclear fusion works by combining two light elements to make a heavier one. It's an attempt to replicate the processes of the Sun here on Earth. Unlike fission, it produces no long-lived radioactive waste and could transform the way we source our power - tackling the climate crisis at the same time."
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/sep/28/carissa-veliz-intrusion-pr...
Pass the pub test? Moi ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bo98bb9HAtA&ab_channel=DoctorWho
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-54745033
"The Argyle mine will close on Tuesday and Rio Tinto will begin a five-year process to decommission it before returning the land to its Traditional Owners."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgh_77TtX5I
Duck Duck Go..
"Despite the lack of visual reports, Dr Devillepoix said a sonic boom would have been heard up to 50 kilometres away from the fireball's location.
"Sonic booms are quite common for rocks that make it quite deep in the atmosphere," he said.
"They pack a big punch and create a kind of shockwave. That's what people hear.""
""What you'd see is a black rock with a dark, fusion crust [of a glassy appearance] around it. But it wouldn't be hot, contrary to popular belief.""
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-11-02/fireball-explosion-reported-perth...
https://gfo.rocks/
"The exact location cannot be determined because remnant cloud hindered DFN's cameras from being able to triangulate the asteroid."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtVO3h35j78&feature=emb_logo
lol
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOgmcSAAgTA&ab_channel=LondonRecordings
Hmmm ....
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cj428knppygo
"The 32-year-old actor was due to read out the UK jury votes at the grand final on Saturday but has now been replaced by singer Sophie Ellis-Bextor."
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/may/16/israel-eurovision-...
"... members of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), are simply spineless."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-DZQ80vEVI
Pirate Stuff..
https://houseofswitzerland.org/swissstories/history/st-bernard-making-al...
Snow Show
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"Many of the big decisions that had been earmarked for 2020 remain up in the air.
"The Sands Development The former indoor pool has been closed since 2017 following the opening of the sports village at Weaponness. It forms part of the Sands North Bay development and £500,000 has been earmarked for its demolition.
Earlier this month, the council was told that its deal for the proposed cinema complex on the former Atlantis waterpark site with developer Benchmark Leisure Limited will be allowed to expire on December 31.
A new plan is now being drawn up for the North Bay though Benchmark has launched a legal challenge against the move. The new vision for the North Bay will be coming this year."
https://planetradio.co.uk/greatest-hits/yorkshire-coast/news/big-decisio...
It was actually a £500K Capital Receipt that was removed from the budget in September 2019 ... and according to the former leader of SBC Cllr Bastiman the pool building was not part of the Sands Development but the car park was - hence they 'The Sand Men' had preferential devlopment status.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9ml3nyww80
Ooops
"Since the 1912 Stockholm Olympics, making official films has become the tradition of the Olympics. More than 40 official films carry the Olympic spirit, record moving stories inside and outside the Olympic venues, leave precious video records for the century-old Olympic Games, and are faithful witnesses to the development of culture and film. In 2008, Chinese filmmakers produced the official Olympic film for the first time, having written a new chapter in the Olympic history and Chinese film history."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3kQlzOi27M
https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2020/jan/12/trans-mongolian-railway-t...
"Breaking into a panic, I followed the tiring sound of Euro-trance and found the disco-dining car, relieved to see a kitchen, even though the chef was lighting a cigarette off the hob while smiling at me."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kXro-Gi4b8
"We welcome applications from young filmmakers aged 18-45 years with filmmaking experience who love the Olympic Games, and are enthusiastic about sports and willing to support and contribute to the Beijing 2022 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games."
"An original short film with a running time of less than 30 minutes which has not been screened in public or released in theatre/online."
lol
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckheOpDLlQE
""It took you a year to come up with a Star Trek logo and a Marvel name? Was your backup the Go-go Gadget Galactics or something?""
It takes one to know one...
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/apr/16/dead-satellite-spa...
'Challenging Exchanges'
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"After that, time tended to stretch alarmingly towards eternity as rather dull, friendly questions were met with dull, friendly answers."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5drYkLiLI8
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/dec/19/liaison-committee-day-t...
"“I struggle to think of another situation where someone protected by law must proactively wrap it around themselves on an individual basis.”"
Chews Wisely :
A: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c878evdp758o
B: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/dec/19/trump-spending-bill-gove...
C: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/dec/17/denmark-refuses-to-extradi...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PnMlYM0V-uU
https://www.jungfrau.ch/en-gb/jungfraujoch-top-of-europe/
It's Triangula.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9layb9U46OY
"I had a dream, which was not all a dream.
The bright sun was extinguish'd, and the stars
Did wander darkling in the eternal space,
Rayless, and pathless, and the icy earth
Swung blind and blackening in the moonless air;
Morn came and went—and came, and brought no day"
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2025/may/10/doctor-who-story-an...