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Saturday, 26 September 2020

Lise Meitner, a physicist who never lost her humanity

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  In 1963, at the age of nearly 85, Lise Meitner gave a talk in Vienna entitled “Memories of Fifty Years in Physics”. She looked back on her...
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Monday, 21 September 2020

Transmutation, reactors and reactions - amazing stuff

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  In 1956 Paul Kazuo, in a published academic paper, proposed that it was possible for the Earth itself to create a natural nuclear reactor ...
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Tuesday, 8 September 2020

I fear I may become the dog that bites

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Shall I tell it as it is?  Shall I hold it close and be silent?  Shall I brood and hug misery in the dark hours? Hypocrisy to pretend...
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Friday, 28 August 2020

Keep your dirty feet out off my mind!

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It began with a metallic watch strap. I noticed mine had begun to look tarnished. Even mottled in places. I had worn it every day, everywhe...
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Sunday, 16 August 2020

Zombie apocalyptic, villains and a good clap

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In these odd days of a pandemic, it feels as if after watching scores of the zombie apocalyptic movies we all woke to find ourselves in o...
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Sunday, 9 August 2020

Winter is Coming

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My grandfather rarely spoke about the War. I believe it was because what he’d seen and lived through was so awful words could not d...
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Friday, 24 July 2020

Descent into madness and avoiding rabbit holes

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Lockdown felt, at times, like a rabbit hole down which one sinks with remorseless ease.  Its progress or regress could be expressed most si...
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Born in Canada, went to Australia for a few years, brought up in Northern Ireland, lived on Greek island for ten years.
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