Now for something utterly different

Just to take a brief break from politics for something really quite mind blowing. Voyager 1, has really left the building. After a mere 33 years Voyager 1 has entered the heliosheath and is no longer feeling the effects of the solar wind – but is still sending back data. Read the full details here +1-1

Student tantrum revisited

As articles about the student protests/tantrums and the evil changes to their funding abound, I find myself increasingly confused by the whole matter. The Independent reports that only a quarter of the students are expected to actually pay off their loans, which would seem to put the whole change in funding firmly into the “book keeping trick” category, as the bulk of the funding will still come from taxes covering the loans but the government can at least claim it’s all loans. In the meantime apart from keeping the cost off the governments books for a bit it would seem … Continue reading

Where is the world heading?

I apologise that I can’t recall where I found the link to this from, but this brief talk by Dale Kuehne from The Jubilee center is well worth 7 minutes of your time, thought provoking and hopeful it makes an awful lot of sense, both in regards to what’s happening with WikiLeaks and the student protests not to mention everything else that’s going on. +2-1