I learned this week that there is such a thing as astronomical twilight and astronomical night, and that during the peak of summer because of the tilt of the earth, we only get to the twilight in the UK. There is an awesome visualisation of t...

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This has felt like a long week. I realised that I am having a day off work roughly every 7 weeks with a thundering headache, inability to focus and incredibly short temper – my wife is placing her bets on some kind of Zoom Fatigue, which sounds not totally implausible – Anadin Extra only takes the edge off it and it takes a day or two before I’m back to normal again. The...

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Not that I don’t think that just about every TED talk is great, but this one entitled “What’s wrong with what we eat” by Mark Bittman resonates with how I think about what my wife and I eat. It turns out we eat around the recommended levels of meat a week (and certainly nothing like the av...

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Well, despite having gone to the gym on a regular frequent occassional basis in the past year or so, I’m still quite unfit. Looking out of my bedroom window I can see a nice big field, so I just went and ran around it a few times. Gosh, I’m even more unfit than I thought. I think I made about three miles or so, which I could almost certainly do be...

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Scientists are developing innovative soaps and deodorants to make us even cleaner. – is this just plain mad or what? I thought we were already too clean and suffering because our bodies didn’t build up strong enough immune systems? One day War of the Worlds will happen but it’ll be _us_ dying because we can’...

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