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HST
The Hubble Space Telescope is 17 today (counting from launch).
This shows off what it can do nicely - full story here.
Eta Carina serves as my background wallpaper in a few places. I've never seen an image of it on this scale before though. Awesome.
A big version but bigger ones are out there. -
Bee seeing you
So, there's all these scare stories about bees disappearing off the face of the planet, prompted it seems by this dubious article in the Independent.
Instapundit covers various debunkings, but the thing that inspired my post today was that:
Albert Einstein once said that if the bees disappeared, "man would have only four years of life left".
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Temperature misunderstandings gripe
I was watching the news over the weekend, and they were talking about the unusual warm spell we've had.
Apparently, it was double the temperature of an average April.
The average April temperature is about 12 degrees C. I therefore decided not to go out, as 300 degrees C is a little too toasty for my tastes. -
What a good blog
I'm enjoying this philosophical blog muchly. via the Labour Humanist -
Another music post
I'm currently enjoying Manifests, particularly Let's Just Pretend that David Bowie Wrote this Song. -
Luminox
Art made a video of Luminox. Wish I'd been there. Heck, it makes me want to move right back to Oxford.
Art - that was an annoyingly skillfully made bit of video. -
The Great Global Warming Swindle
In case any readers saw this on Channel 4, I think it's worth linking to RealClimate's take on it. -
So what was that last post about?
As typical spotted, the Government standards allow a number of insecticides including pyrethrins and rotenone. Pyrethrins come from chrysanthemums and rotenone from certain other plants ( Read more... ) -
Organic food
Poll Insecticides
