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A bargain for taxpayers

Jun 11, 2025 at 11:54 PM | Registered Commentertomo

Cliff Young - Aussie runner - why is he not better known than Eddied The Eagle?

Jun 11, 2025 at 7:04 PM | Registered Commentertomo

green slope / black diamond?

Jun 11, 2025 at 8:07 AM | Registered Commentertomo

tomo,
Well, yes. We can hope for the green slope, but you seem to have slipped onto a black diamond.

Jun 11, 2025 at 4:41 AM | Unregistered CommenterRobert Swan

tomo,
Well, yes. We can hope for the green slope, but you seem to have slipped onto a black diamond.

Jun 11, 2025 at 4:40 AM | Unregistered CommenterRobert Swan
Jun 11, 2025 at 2:27 AM | Registered Commentertomo

The USA approval process for a hepatitis B vaccine in 2018 is, um, impressive.

Perhaps it's reassuring to know that the same problems were around a couple of millenia ago:

  quis custodiet ipsos custodes (Juvenal)
  sic omnia fatis in peius ruere (Virgil)

And Virgil's was a bit on the pessimistic side. Things occasionally improve before resuming the steady march downhill.

Jun 11, 2025 at 1:53 AM | Unregistered CommenterRobert Swan

tomo,
I do enjoy cosmology stuff, but as light entertainment. It helps to underline the deeper jokes in Red Dwarf. For the business of light/EMR being a wave in the aether, it starts getting a bit like Feynman's "Oomph" explanation for everything (that really explains nothing).


Thought this sounded a more plausible explanation for the violence in the Gaza relief supply lines. Perhaps just confirming my biases...

Hope Greta enjoyed the film presentation.

Jun 10, 2025 at 7:53 AM | Unregistered CommenterRobert Swan

What I enjoyed about the cosmology video was the circular thing where it seemed to me that in attempting to fix acknowledged issues with the mainstream explanation consequent from fresh observations an explanation was offered which - if logically applied and followed through seemed to blow up the settled explanation...

or something ... I think I've that about right?

Some people have difficulty saying "that's odd, I don't know"...

Another one that entertains is anomalous red shift in quasars that defies explanation and has generated lots of conjecture (mostly conjecture!)

Jun 9, 2025 at 3:16 PM | Registered Commentertomo

Bonus picture. (King's Birthday long weekend here, so I'm going wild)

Jun 9, 2025 at 2:09 AM | Unregistered CommenterRobert Swan

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