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Tag Archives: Wikipedia
Crime and Punishment
I’m convinced that most people go through life making few real choices. Oh, we all can all look back and say “Oh, decided to do so-and-so”, but I’m convinced that we didn’t make a choice in the sense of sitting … Continue reading
How do I get from A to B?
We had reason to visit another suburb today. It wasn’t until I was sitting waiting for some traffic lights to change that I thought about how I was navigating from home to destination. We just got into the car and … Continue reading
Posted in General, Miscellaneous, Philosophy, Science
Tagged Academy Award, Assisted GPS, Auburn City, Austin, Autoblog.com, Automotive industry, Autonomous car, Bicycle sharing system, C (programming language), California, Cat, Citizen science, Computer file, Computer program, Contra Costa Times, CPU cache, Global Positioning System, Internet, Texas, Traffic light, Wikipedia
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I forgot!
#125529676 / gettyimages.com Well, I almost forgot to write my weekly post. My excuse is that Monday is a public holiday and this upset my schedule. Of course this is only an excuse. It did start me thinking about forgetting … Continue reading
Posted in General, Miscellaneous, Philosophy, Uncategorized
Tagged 21 December 2012, BCE, Calendar, Common Era, Forgetting, Mayan, Mayan calendar, Wikipedia
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Grand kids
This post may be a little late this week, as we took the grand kids to a local “wildlife park”. Which leads me not so subtly into the topic of the week. As kids we used to go to Granny … Continue reading
Posted in General, Miscellaneous, Photography
Tagged Aunt, Deutsche Bahn, Grandparent, Granny, Guineafowl, Hutt Valley, New Zealand, Wikipedia
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Sports by proxy
We sit in our chairs and watch sport. We watch the news. We catch up on what friends are up to on Facebook and Twitter. Very few of us actually do anything. This is both worrying and amazing. I’ve been … Continue reading
The Negative Universe
If cosmologists are to be believed the Universe came from nothing and is likely to return to nothing. This is odd as there seems to be an awful lot of it! There are between ten to the power 78 … Continue reading
Posted in General, Maths, Miscellaneous, Philosophy, Science
Tagged Antimatter, Antiparticle, Big Bang, Cambridge, Einstein, Ultraviolet, Universe, Wikipedia
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The Start of New Year
According to sources on the Internet, the winter solstice in the Southern Hemisphere occurs at 10:51 am UT on 21 June (this year, 2014). That translates to 10:51 pm in New Zealand. Just as in the Northern Hemisphere the start … Continue reading
Posted in General, Miscellaneous, Philosophy, Science
Tagged Beltane, Earth, Equinox, Northern Hemisphere, Samhain, Southern Hemisphere, Wikipedia, winter solstice
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