“The true wealth of all nations comes from clean rivers, healthy soil and most importantly, a rich biodiversity of life”. “…we are not what we think we are. We are not the masters of creation. No matter how sophisticated our technology has become, the simple fact is that we are not separate from nature...
A little while ago I blogged that I was concerned about the missing evidence linking global warming to the activity of humankind. There are plenty of people who will show you all sorts of evidence that the Earth's climate is changing – and with that I agree. However, what then generally happens is...
This post is mainly for my cohorts on the The Sky as a Cultural Resource course at University of Glamorgan. I run a Yahoo group that was originally created to support the Alien Worlds course. The idea is to build an independent community around the course material so that we can keep in touch during...
2009 is International Year of Astronomy – a subject I’m keenly interested in. My readers who live in Wales may be interested to know that The University of Glamorgan is running a nearly-free course this year titled “ The Sky as a Cultural Resource ”, in celebration of 2009 international year of astronomy...
Stephen Fry, in his blog “ The New Adventures of Mr Stephen Fry ” recounts a heated discussion he ad with an American gentleman regarding global warming. He postulates that people fall broadly into three groups in the debate, the Believers , the Deniers and the Fence Sitters . I’m a Fence Sitter, but...
It’s not often you hear the words End of the World , Black Hole , Flying Saucer and Loch Ness Monster in the same utterance, so my interest was piqued when I heard exactly that on BBC’s The One Show tonight. Apparently, the Large Hadron Collider , a gargantuan particle accelerator in a 27Km tunnel straddling...
I was watching the Bill Gates keynote at CES the other day when one of the presenters gave a demo of Windows Live Photo Gallery stitching together a mosaic of images into a single panorama. I have a few panoramic images so I thought I'd give it a go, and I am so impressed with it! I decided to give...