Seven Days In

  "Pale Blue Dot"  by   Carl Sagan  continues and is about listening for signals that may have come from intelligent life in t...

Is Saturday better than Friday? Friday has the anticipation of the two day weekend combined with the fact that it's the last day of...

I'm really enjoying the final Stephen Hawking book which while I don't understand a great deal of it, it is a great book for st...

The Illuminatus! Trilogy is finished and I had my eyes on three books to read next: How To Stop Time by Matt Haig Brief Answers To...

After yesterday going on about Roman Numerals I thought what is the Roman Numeral for Zero? It turns out there isn't one, but med...

Today is the 29th of July and it's the birthday of six people I know in varying degrees of importance, and until this morning...

It's always good to talk and chat with peopla about non essential things. Today I was in a shop discussing the merits of Stephen ...

I switched on the radio ( 6Music obviously) and John Hilcock was  "Frontier Man" by Gruff Rhys and the first line I heard ...

Woke up to the sad news that Stephen Hawking had passed. Others will better eulogise than me on the brilliance of the man and his min...

This post is nothing more than an excuse to play on of my favourite Lyndsey Buckingham songs , "Countdown". While I wanted to...

When I was at primary school my headmistress Mrs Walsh told us that a genius who could see and explain things very simply. She gave the ...