NASA videos Transit Of Venus and it’s astounding
This is great. NASA has released footage from its satellite the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO). If you think money spent on space is a waste of time, please go elsewhere. Enjoy.
This is great. NASA has released footage from its satellite the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO). If you think money spent on space is a waste of time, please go elsewhere. Enjoy.
Fifty years ago, humans set foot on the moon. It was, and still is, the most incredible thing to have done and unlike the vast majority of things we smart apes do, makes me proud to be a human. I don’t have anything controversial or even particularly insightful to say about this achievement 50 years…
The Temple of Art is a documentary (and website) about what it is like to be an artist. Although not just an artist, just generally creative. There are lots of writers, musicians, directors and actors, etc, featured, and the end result is damned inspiring.
A guy dialect coach called Andrew Jack shows what the various accents are like around the UK.
I love books. I read about a book a week – that’s not a boast, it is a sad lament on how boring my job can be. They are marvelous things that make your house look cool and make you look smart. Even if they are just Clive Cussler or Dan Brown novels. (Well maybe,…
I am increasingly starting to think a lot of subscriptions are scams against the unwary. And that definitely includes me. I recently saw a post somewhere that suggested you list your subscriptions and work out roughly how much you pay. I didn’t worry particularly as I thought I spent maybe £50 at most. A couple…
This post is something of an experiment just to see how brilliant the technology at my disposal is. I’m currently lying in a hammock on the very quiet and quite remote island of Koh Jum in Thailand in the Andaman sea. I bought a cheap smartphone in Hong Kong which I then took to Thailand….