Phil's Blog

Message to my girl

10 Nov 2008 11:31:41 +0000

I'm still in total obsession mode with Split Enz's old tunes.

This...

2 Nov 2008 18:09:20 +0000

My daughter, Rebee, playing her band Retro Tap's first gig in Worcester's Marrs Bar this week. She's the lead singer....

1 Nov 2008 11:46:15 +0000

What correlates with sunspot numbers?

What's the significance of a clear view of the Pleiades?

Answers...

1 Nov 2008 11:35:06 +0000

Jean-Philippe Bouchaud, writing in this week's Nature:

"So many accepted ideas have been proven wrong...

25 Oct 2008 16:27:51 +0100

But like a parrot in a flaming tree

I know, it's pretty hard to see

And I'm beginning to...

21 Oct 2008 12:13:01 +0100

There's a nice bit of balance in the Director of Public Prosecution's lecture Coming out of the Shadows:

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21 Oct 2008 10:57:08 +0100

So sang Leonard Cohen in his 1992 album The Future. But it's taking its time. In an article in

18 Oct 2008 12:57:14 +0100

The Banksters (thanks to Radio Ecoshock's Alex Smith for the term) took home £16 billion in bonuses in the...

18 Oct 2008 11:37:01 +0100

"Where finance is concerned, the basic implication of peak oil is pretty stark: an end to industrial expansion (i.e....

13 Oct 2008 20:08:15 +0100

Historian Simon Schama, talking on this morning's Start the Week on Radio 4:

"this time it's...