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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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, […]
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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 […]
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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…