This looks interesting. Be very interesting to see if it works. <http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/6609205.stm> Ian -- Ian Robinson - Belfast - UK Soapbox -...
... Indeed it was. Hottest April in the UK since records began. <http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6615083.stm> Very warm and sunny this week. Which is good but......
Is bloody stunning from Belfast tonight. In the South West over the city from my house. Hanging in the darkening sky like a bright bulb. Beautiful! Ian -- Ian...
A news story on Chemistry World site reports that element 112 has been formed and reacted with gold to form an amalgam. It true it means that 112 behaves like...
... And the newly risen, almost full moon, is stunning as well. If you have clear skies tonight as darkness rolls by they're both worth a few minutes ...
... Thanks for the HeadsUp... I have so many mountains and so many trees, it's always a guess what I'll be able to see, but so far the day is clear so there's...
I've posted this before in DC, but it's appropriate for here. A very short story by the late great Frank Herbert. Even in this short piece he crammed in lots...
You may remember a study from last year that claimed to have detected methane emissions from plants. The implication was that we had missed a large source of...
Werner Heisenberg is scheduled to give a lecture at MIT. But he's running late and so is speeding through town in his rental car on his way to the auditorium....
Reminds me of a Copernicus joke Copernicus's exasperated mother to young Copernicus: "When are you going to learn that the world doesn't revolve around you?"...
... The OpenLean site has been updated with lots of new material today. See ULR above. The first 3 chapters of the Climate Change book from the Course S250 are...
How do you pronounce quark? I've always pronounced it, read it and heard it in my heard as a rhyme of "lark" or mark". A footnote on page 88 of "The Canon" by...
I'm with you, Ian, but I don't know anybody who talks about them so I'm coming from reading the word also. ;) Perhaps N. Angier comes from a place where...
Hi all, My hubby the physicist said it is pronounced kwark -- in this part of the US -- w/ the sound of the "ark" sounding to me like the word "arc," a...
... I say arc and mark the same (minus the m sound of course). Probably depends on accent and dialect, with some smoothing out in the professional and academic...
________________________________ From: talkscience@yahoogroups.com [mailto:talkscience@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Ian Robinson Sent: 20 May 2007 12:37 To:...
... Me too. Especially since most of the times I've heard the word spoken was on a comedy/sci fi show in the late '70s called Quark about an interstellar...
This is interesting. Evidence that a comet airburst over North America about 13,000 years ago. See: <http://space.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn11909> Ian ...
... The New Scientist site seems to be down. Try the link again later. It did work as I tried it before posting. Ian -- Ian Robinson - Belfast - UK Soapbox -...
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