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Analogies don’t get better

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Sometimes life smiles at you and the world creates the most wonderful of analogies. Yesterday as you may have read some Greenpeace protestors decide to climb the Shard. Which is a rather tall building and so presented something of a challenge. Fortunately they had mobile phones with them (presumably attached securely to them by lanyards to avoid endangering people below) and they tweeted about their expereince during the climb. The climb was apparently to protest against Shell drilling for oil in the arctic, not that Shell have offices in the shard, nor that the shard owners have anything to do … Continue reading →

Mistaken facebook images about Margret Thatcher

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I know arguing about the “information” in those “cleverly” captioned pictures on Facebook, tumblr and everywhere else is utterly pointless, but they’ve been annoying me for too long, so I’m going to indulge my inner pedant and start rebutting the odd one. Today I shall be starting with two relating to Margaret Thatchers demise. This one rather annoys me as it tries to excuse the deeply unpleasant celebration of Mrs Thatcher’s death by trying to claim that November the 5th celebrations are rejoicing in Guy Fawkes death. Now let’s just ignore that even if that was the case for most … Continue reading →

Absurdist science

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A few days ago a meteor exploded above Russia and an asteroid had a close fly by with the earth. Such is the state of science education and climate alarmism that a new anchor asked if the asteroid coming so close was due to global warming. I wonder though if I’m being too harsh on the news anchor when “scientists” are claiming that aliens might object to the environmental damage humans have caused on Earth and wipe us out to save the planet”, and NASA have stated that the Russian meteor wasn’t linked to the asteroid – so really we … Continue reading →