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Monthly Archives: December 2010
Why Chocolate Melts and Jet Engines Don’t – Mark Miodownik’s Royal Institution Christmas Lecture
It was a bit of a rush last Thursday, getting to the Royal Institution in time for the recording of one of the 2010 Christmas Lectures – it was scheduled to start at 6pm but it was necessary to arrive … Continue reading
Putti and Dragons; Sweary Mary and Beowulf; and the Silk Road
I got to UCL too late to join the students on their way to Whitehall to demonstrate against the tuition fee increases, they’d already left; but I still had to squeeze past the vastly increased security presence (although this just … Continue reading
Posted in archaeology/history, books, landscape, science
Tagged angels, archaeoastronomy, art, Beowulf, british library, Clive Ruggles, dragons, English, fairies, ICOMOS, putti, Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Roger Wotton, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Silk Road, Tim Williams, UCL, UCL Lunchtime Lectures, World Heritage SItes
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Bad-tempered rant about televisual idiocy
It’s been a bit depressing looking at what was on BBC television the evening just gone. Not because there was a load of rubbish on, because that’s normal, and as Theodore Sturgeon said, ninety percent of everything is crud (that’s … Continue reading
Posted in archaeology/history, radio and TV, science
Tagged Ancient Worlds, bbc, Brian Cox, Radio Times, Richard Miles, Royal Television Society
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