Meanwhile, researchers from the School of Psychology at the University of Sussex have revealed how horses communicate:
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How Horses Communicate
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Horses, Midlands, University of Sussex on August 5, 2014 by telescoperDemolition at Didcot
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Cooling Towers, Demolition, Didcot Power Station on July 27, 2014 by telescoperAs someone who has spent his fair share of time traveling backwards and forwards on the First Great Western railway line between Cardiff (or Swindon) and London, it seems appropriate to note that the environs of Didcot Parkway station (which lies on the main line) will look rather different next time I do that journey. In the early hours of this morning, three of the six enormous cooling towers came tumbling down:
I gather the other three are also scheduled for demolition, although I doubt I’ll be able to attend that event in person either!
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Posted in Uncategorized on July 25, 2014 by telescoperBrilliant sketch about the difficulty of fitting into the corporate world when you actually know things about stuff:
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Interlude
Posted in Uncategorized on April 16, 2014 by telescoperI’m taking a short holiday over the Easter break and probably won’t be blogging until I get back, primarily because I won’t have an internet connection where I’m going. That’s a deliberate decision, by the way. So, as the saying goes, there will now follow a short intermission….
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A Bit of Green Trivia..
Posted in Film, History, The Universe and Stuff, Uncategorized with tags Edward Bromhead, George Green, Michael Caine, Physics on March 8, 2014 by telescoperFollowing on from yesterday’s post about George Green, I thought I’d add this little bit of Green trivia.
George Green’s sponsor and patron was the mathematician Edward Bromhead, a Baronet and member of the landed gentry of the county of Lincolnshire. Two generations later in the Bromhead family you will find a certain Gonville Bromhead (presumably named after Gonville & Caius College, the Cambridge college that both Edward Bromhead and George Green attended). As a young man, in January 1879, Lt. Gonville Bromhead fought in the Battle of Rorke’s Drift. Almost a century later he was played by Michael Caine in the film Zulu.
Not a lot of people know that.
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Posted in Uncategorized on February 17, 2014 by telescoperI haven’t got time for a proper blog post today so I thought I’d just share with you my latest powerpoint presentation:
Irony 101
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Birmingham University, Vandalism on February 3, 2014 by telescoper
A Sussex story!
Posted in Uncategorized on January 31, 2014 by telescoperA very touching blog post from a Sussex student who graduated In Absentia this week…
29 January 2014
The stage is set, the lights are on…the Brighton dome is electric with energy and booming with excitement. Miles away, I am sitting across the computer with sparkling eyes and a beating heart. Awaiting the live streaming to begin…awaiting my graduation ceremony to commence.
Today, 2 months into the professional world, I turn around for a peek into the student life once again. As my classmates walk across the stage, I share in their happiness, I share in their smiles and just a tiny shiver of disappointment travels through me. I envision them laughing their hearts out, breathing a sigh of relief for finally and officially crossing the bridge from being graduands to becoming graduates. ‘In absentia’ the University confers the degree upon me as well, and an audible sigh of relief escapes my lips. “Yes, I have done it!”
From being a Sussex post-graduate student, I…
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The January Man
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Dave Goulder, The January Man on January 25, 2014 by telescoperThe January man he walks the road
In woollen coat and boots of leather
The February man still shakes the snow
From off his hair and blows his hands
The man of March he sees the Spring and
Wonders what the year will bring
And hopes for better weather
Through April rains the man comes down
To watch the birds come in to share the summer
The man of May stands very still
Watching the children dance away the day
In June the man inside the man is young
And wants to lend a hand
And grins at each new colour
And in July the man in cotton shirt
He sits and thinks on being idle
The August man in thousands take the road
To watch the sea and find the sun
September man is standing near
To saddle up another year
And Autumn is his bridle
The man of new October takes the reins
And early frost is on his shoulder
The poor November man sees fire and rain
And snow and mist and wintery gale
December man looks through the snow
To let eleven brothers know
They’re all a little older
And the January man comes round again
In woollen coat and boots of leather
To take another turn and walk along
the icy road he knows so well
For the January man is here for
Starting each and every year
Along the road for ever..
by Dave Goulder (1939-)
Comedians Are Not Psychotic
Posted in Uncategorized on January 17, 2014 by telescoperEnjoyable dismantling of yet another dodgy psychological “study” by Dave Steele, who may or may not be a comedian…..
“Successful comedians display symptoms of psychosis, study says” went the headline. “Psychotic traits in comedians” said the title of the study the headline was referring to. “Bang” went the foreheads meeting the desks of many psychologists, psychiatrists and humans who’d thought for five seconds about what this headline could do for science, psychology, psychiatry and mental illness stigma.
The scientific study, which in this case is apparently Latin for “press release based on a journal article”, states that the popular belief that creativity is related to mental illness is borne out in comedians, who showed higher levels of psychotic traits than actors, who both showed higher levels of psychotic traits than “normal” people. The word normal was the article’s rather than mine as obviously actors and comedians (and by association people with traits of mental illness [?!]) aren’t “normal”. At least the authors are thematically consistent with their…
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In the Dark 