Submitted by Captain Qahn on
"From the steam engine to the power of plasmas"
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09t9txy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvESV234lg0
Spose I ought to take a meter reading... ;-0
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-63147947
https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/interpreting-5-ancient-con...
Grrr...
"No matter where we were or how we stood or what time of day, all day, every day, there were always long shadows — crazy long shadows."
https://climate.nasa.gov/ask-nasa-climate/2594/sun-and-sky-snow-and-ice/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMiKyfd6hA0
"Locating Polaris is easy on any clear night. Just find the Big Dipper. The two stars on the end of the Dipper's "cup" point the way to Polaris, which is the tip of the handle of the Little Dipper, or the tail of the little bear in the constellation Ursa Minor."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzZn31gd_Jc
https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/1944/what-is-the-north-star-and-how-do...
"If the albedo were to decrease, temperature would rise..."
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2022/oct/09/beam-me-down-can-solar-p...
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'Inglorious Alternatives'
Submitted by Captain Qalypso on
"The High Court hearing in London is the first test of a major ruling in June that raised doubts that any new fossil fuel project could be approved in the UK. The head of the mining company sat side-by-side in court with the climate campaigners that want to stop him opening the UK’s first deep coal mine in 30 years."
"Labour opposed the Whitehaven project in opposition and instead of defending it in court, the new government walked away from the case last week, citing an “error in law”."
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/jul/22/fresh-from-his-...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYOQDnWFXYI
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cp68949n013o
"They also said the mine could not correctly claim that by digging coal in the UK, it would substitute coal mined in other parts of the world, meaning there would be no extra greenhouse gas emissions globally."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6POZlJAZsok
""I love the images," he said. "I love words and storytelling and I love the way that you can have this engagement that overlays. And so you can look at the art and then you can follow the story.""
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJ4i-QbXG54
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c728ven2v9eo
Nope, there's Nothing new There then.
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/may/07/cornish-tin-was-sold-all...
Never, Gives Up.
'Dry & Crisp'
Submitted by Captain Qalypso on
"“If you live where I grew up, which is subtopical, you don’t see so many shadows. The sun is directly hitting the ground. You see vibrant color, in food, in houses and in signage,” she said. “And I felt that was not just a choice, not just a celebration of the form. It’s actually what we see. If you are closer to the equator, you see stronger color... she painted the mountains so sharp, and that’s because there’s no water in the air, so you get to see really far.”!"
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/ng-interactive/2025/may/04/land...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0JSahEDRjvw
"... nothing will detract or distract from celebrating with full cheer and proud hearts that precious victory and those brave souls, on this most special and poignant of anniversaries ..."
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy8q6nv91x4o
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsdy_rct6uo
Hypocrisy in Action.
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2025/may/05/life-for-the-displa...
""It's one of those little winks to the audience that I like to include during the season.""
Those Bristol Chandeliers Light Up the Candle in Your Eyes. ..
""The “right to a jury” is a hangover from a medieval entitlement to judgment by one’s “peers” over the whim of an unelected manorial lord or other authority.""
https://www.theguardian.com/money/2025/may/04/how-ticketmaster-swallowed...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFuYIi5-igc
https://newsthump.com/2026/03/27/relief-as-coast-to-coast-walking-trail-...
'Villages Vexed'
Submitted by Captain Qalypso on
""If I am not amiss, this pond 'lake' is in the countryside in a rural setting," he said. "Festooned lighting hanging along a 'proposed bridge'... spotlights, is this really Great Tew or have I mistaken this area for Blackpool?"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMS51a8HX80
"Most of the bottles are Villa Maria, which costs £10.75 in the nearest supermarket and is said to pair well with seafood and tangy goat's cheese. Villagers, however, have warned about the danger to runners, horse riders and farmers who cut the long grass on the verges for hay."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZL0UgdiDL00
"By 1834, Thomas Joyce had turned his attention to large public clocks for churches and civic buildings. His company later manufactured an escapement mechanism which was used in the Great Clock at the Palace of Westminster, otherwise known as Big Ben."
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3ex1v11nwyo
According to Smith of Derby, its most ambitious project came in 1927. That was the year the company built the clock mechanism for Shanghai's Customs House on the Bund. To this day, it remains the largest mechanical clock in Asia."
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/28/science/space/nasa-astronaut-medical-...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TR3Vdo5etCQ&list=RDTR3Vdo5etCQ&start_rad...
""It was so obvious to me that when you build a set of AI systems to maximise things like clicks and likes and shares and angry faces and things like that, what you're doing is designing AI to addict people," he said."
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy8135ny182o
lol
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akvRTybPbBE