Monthly Archives: January 2011

My TalkTalk nightmare enters its second year.

It is now exactly one year since my troubles with TalkTalk began. In a nutshell, they came to door offering to match the price of my existing service. I was interested and gave them some details. It turned out they … Continue reading

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Life, Unbounded: All you need to know about 2,000 years of astrobiology

Caleb Scharf has just finished his superb sequence of the ten most important question in astrobiology. They are all good, but the end is a good place to begin: Metrodoru, the first astrobiologist? From Pergammon, Berlin, Image via Wikipedia The … Continue reading

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Library emptied in life and literature.

Life has sadly imitated art as Stony Stratford Library steals the plot of “The case of the missing books” by Ian Samson. The fact: The library in Stony Stratford near Milton Keynes, England, urged its patrons to check out every … Continue reading

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And if you haven’t, you should.

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