If you grew up anywhere near Newcastle, you were probably taken round the Hancock Museum at some point and spent most of the visit with your nose pressed against a glass case of stuffed animals [more…]
Well here we are for the second part of this series of interesting aeroplanes you’ve probably never heard of. There’s quite a few good candidates for these articles and a few which stand out particularly [more…]
The Puffin is a well-travelled bird, although a trip to the moon might be beyond even the most enthusiastic non-reader of articles and comments. Fear not, the moon might be coming to you. The Museum [more…]
In the early 1970s, Chile attempted an ambitious experiment in economic planning. The country’s socialist government invited British cybernetician Stafford Beer to help design a computerised system capable of coordinating the entire national economy. The [more…]
If you were ever handed a bottle of Lucozade when ill as a child, you can trace the origins of this back to a Stockton-born surgeon, a baby who died on his ward in 1908, [more…]
Why? My BT broadband, including mobile is £85/month. I get a download speed of around 23Mbps and it’s not particularly reliable. The basic Starlink package of £40/month (I understand this might vary by location) is [more…]
A bit about me… Hi… i’m Phil.. I live in Northamptonshire, married with two kids, I work in the construction industry, or at least adjacent. I’m a long time lurker (early days of Guido Fawkes [more…]
George Biddell Airy was Astronomer Royal for 46 years. He drew the line the whole world sets its clocks by, weighed the Earth from the bottom of a coal pit in South Shields and never, [more…]
Way back in the 70s or it might even have been the 60s, the French Wine Industry insisted that red wine was really good for you. I took this to heart, forget the butter is [more…]
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