Odyssey

a journey without end

  • Mother!

    Mother!

    “Mother!” – film review About a quarter of the way through Mother! you realise that it is a burlesque, a very dark one. The promised descent into chaos comes sooner and more suddenly than you expect and you realise something quite unexpected is on the way. What is it going to say? Suddenly it’s not […]

    Phil Salmon

    August 17, 2019
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  • The great UK power cut on 9 Aug 2019 – caused by too much wind power

    The great UK power cut on 9 Aug 2019 – caused by too much wind power

    Posted by “it doesn’t add up” on WattsUpWithThat, 10 Aug, 10:22am, 2019   I’ve done a lot of research on this, looking at the data from National Grid at BM Reports, Gridwatch, and a very helpful frequency chart at 1 second resolution from Upside Energy, a small company providing experimental token grid stabilisation services using […]

    Phil Salmon

    August 10, 2019
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  • Some thoughts on the ending of Game Of Thrones

    Some thoughts on the ending of Game Of Thrones

    There was quite some controversy about the final series 8 of Game of Thrones. Some fans of Danaerys Targaryen were upset that their hero turned villain her story arc ended in a startlingly unexpected way. Even a petition was launched by thousands of wanabee GRR Martins who thought they could write a better script. However […]

    Phil Salmon

    July 16, 2019
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  • The cult of carbon dioxide is leading palaeo-climate research on a road to nowhere

    The cult of carbon dioxide is leading palaeo-climate research on a road to nowhere

    Researchers have always been curious as to past climates where the earth was sometimes much colder and mostly ice covered, or much warmer with forests up to the poles. Or somewhere in between. In more rational times, it was recognised that tectonic shifts and rearrangement of continents, causing changed ocean circulation patterns, was the main […]

    Phil Salmon

    July 16, 2019
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  • Dumbo, 2019, movie review

    Dumbo, 2019, movie review

    “Dumbo” the movie, 2019 Review We watched the movie “Dumbo” as a group of family and friends on the occasion of our oldest daughter’s 18th birthday. It was her choice of film, about which she was quite resolute, despite doubts we expressed that it might be aimed at younger children, and also the lukewarm online […]

    Phil Salmon

    May 12, 2019
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  • Supernova:a possible cause of mass extinction at the dawn of the Pleistocene

    Supernova:a possible cause of mass extinction at the dawn of the Pleistocene

    About 2.6 million years ago, an oddly bright light arrived in the prehistoric sky and lingered there for weeks or months. It was a supernova some 150 light years away from Earth. Within a few hundred years, long after the strange light in the sky had dwindled, a tsunami of cosmic energy from that same […]

    Phil Salmon

    December 17, 2018
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  • Cepheid variable stars: the perfect natural oscillators

    Cepheid variable stars: the perfect natural oscillators

    What is a Cepheid variable star? Cepheid variable stars as any astronomers here know are God’s gift to cosmology – almost a design argument by themselves since they’re so incredibly useful to human star-gazers. Why? – because they tell you exactly how far away they are. Cepheids pulsate in brightness, and the frequency of their […]

    Phil Salmon

    July 22, 2018
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  • Odyssey from Africa and the Adventures of Ipiki

    Odyssey from Africa and the Adventures of Ipiki

      Sixty thousand years ago a small group of people changed the world. Odyssey from Africa tells their story. It is a myth of human origins based on fact, in a narrative poem aimed at all ages. Fleeing a village witch-hunt, a fisherman with his wife and twin children embark on a flight for survival, […]

    Phil Salmon

    January 12, 2018
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  • When science had no shame: the poem “Passage to India” by Walt Whitman

    When science had no shame: the poem “Passage to India” by Walt Whitman

    A new Prohibition? Are we living in a new prohibition era? A generation of straight-laced environmental puritans have been teaching us and our children to be ashamed of science and technology. The internal combustion engine, instead of an empowering transport technology connecting the world, is a guilty emitter of a demonized CO2. We are forbidden […]

    Phil Salmon

    June 5, 2017
    Uncategorized
    Innocence, Passage to India, Poetry, Prohibition, Science, Science and religion, Walt Whitman, Wonder of science
  • Did the first humans come from Greece, not Africa?

    Did the first humans come from Greece, not Africa?

    A new oldest human fossil has been found, and surprisingly it was in southern Europe – Greece and Bulgaria, not Africa…

    Phil Salmon

    June 5, 2017
    Uncategorized
    Africa, Bulgaria, Evolution, Greece, Human origins, Mediterranean, Messinian, Paleontology, Sahara
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