I am a reasonable kind of person. If I hear something that seems to make sense, I'm willing to give it the benefit of the doubt.I am reading
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Author Archives: Athena
Spring! Finally!
…. and time for a bit of spring cleaning! After five years this blog is closing. The world is changing…. I am changing. It’s time to move on… new ideas, new interests, new activities. So long and thanks for all … Continue reading
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Thoughts of a book addict – About the immortal mind
“The energy used in thinking seems to have a chemical origin….” wrote the English philosopher Bertrand Russell. “For instance, a deficiency of iodine will turn a clever man into an idiot. Mental phenomena seem to be bound up with material … Continue reading
Ocean Acidification – “Time to Change”
UCLA ESS 15 ocean/climate science communication project by Thomas Li. Sung by Thomas Li and featuring Ryan Yoo on rap vocals. Parody of “Glad You Came”, by The Wanted. Continue reading
Lessons from Science — no 3. The Principle of Certainty.
Being human, most scentists conferm to the psychological Principle of Certainty Continue reading
Lessons from Science — no 2. The dilemma of evolutionary biology
Biologists have many problems to solve. For each of them they have clear answers — usually too many answers. Continue reading
Lessons from Science – no 1
If you’re the most intelligent person in the room . . . you’re in the wrong room. Continue reading
Sea urchin could hold key to tackling climate change
The humble sea urchin could hold the key to turning harmful greenhouse gas carbon dioxide into chalk on an industrial scale, British scientists have revealed. Continue reading
Nuclear storage clean-up bill could cost £70bn
Britain is storing an “extraordinary accumulation of hazardous nuclear waste” in “outdated facilities” which will cost nearly £70bn to clean up, MPs have warned the Government. Almost all of the major nuclear-decommissioning projects at the Sellafield complex in Cumbria are … Continue reading
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Tagged lake District, nuclear power, nuclear waste, nuclear-reprocessing
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It’s been a while since the last time I wrote a blog post. Things have been pretty hectic lately…
It’s been a while since the last time I wrote a blog post. Things have been pretty hectic lately… Continue reading
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New study to investigate the impacts of ocean acidification in the Southern Ocean
From the Antarctic Ocean Acidification UK Cruise Press Release – 07 January 2013 To begin 2013 with a big bang, a team of thirty scientists, from eight of the UK’s top research laboratories, will be setting out on an oceanographic … Continue reading
