Engineering
Unnecessary Engineering
Project 1: Scope Dials Welcome all and please gather round so I can waste a few minutes of your precious time on describing something that didn’t really need doing and no doubt would interest few. [more…]
Science
Health
Your GP is simply a functionary
You were probably brought up on such medical TV programmes, depending on your age, as Dr.Kildare, Emergency Ward 10, Dr. Finlay’s Casebook or the many subsequent programmes of a similar genre. The implication of such [more…]
Going Postal
Cipher – A Tribute To OldTrout
Introduction Cipher – meaning zero (0), nothing or an empty set. Decipher – to make something out of that seemingly meaningless nothing. Caroline or ‘Old Trout’ (as we affectionately remember her) was a brilliant mathematician. [more…]
Engineering
Three Gyroscopes – Part 3
Introduction In part one we looked at how a gyroscope seems to defy gravity. This is accomplished by angular momentum. We’ll come back to that later 🙂 In part two we looked at how a [more…]
Diary
Diary Of A Covid Victim
Sunday I got a lift from Ms Geek’s sister and husband for a family gathering in the West Country where I would finally meet the delectable Ms Geeks after a few weeks’ absence. A boring [more…]
Authoritarianism
Mask Mongs
Masks, masks, everywhere and all the hubs did shrink. Everywhere I go there are masked goons, in cars alone, on pavements alone, wearing them in all sorts of places where they are not required by [more…]
Health
Mass (Mis)(In)Formation Psychosis
Immodium is MFP. MFP has come to consciousness out of Covid and the idea that the “Masses” are willing to sacrifice freedoms to get the cure and undertake behaviours to save their lives. MFP existed [more…]
Computing
Snowflakes
I have always loved snowflakes. On a chairlift, with your head down into a biting wind, one is allowed about twenty minutes to study them settling on your clothes. They have two classes of symmetry; [more…]
Arts
Planet Lockdown Film is coming on Jan 15th!
Short Trailer to the international documentary PLANET LOCKDOWN. WHERE ARE WE? Full release in multiple languages January 15th: PlanetLockdownFilm.com Subscribe to the email list for updates on the film and interviews: https://planetlockdownfilm.com/lists/?p=subscribe Watch more full [more…]