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Fact of the Week: January 2009
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Fact of the Week. Oh, why the hell not? Tuesday, 27 January 2009. Creationism: Words fail me. I visited the Darwin ‘Big Idea’ exhibition at the Natural History Museum at the weekend. The tagline – ‘If you had an idea that was going to outrage society, would you keep it to yourself? 8217; – refers to the fact that Darwin held off publishing. On the Origin of Species. For twenty years for fear that Christians (his wife/cousin. Included) would not be best pleased. There is so much more of this stuff that wi...
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Fact of the Week: Santa Claus v. The Laws of Physics
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Fact of the Week. Oh, why the hell not? Tuesday, 15 December 2009. Santa Claus v. The Laws of Physics. I’m blatantly stealing this from elsewhere but it’s worth wheeling out at this time of year, I think. Merry Christmas! I’m signing off until January. So, Santa Claus has 31 hours to work with, thanks to the different time zones and the rotation of the earth, assuming he does the logical thing and travels east to west. This works out as 822.6 visits per second. This alarming bulk of flying animals, gifts...
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Fact of the Week: June 2009
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Fact of the Week. Oh, why the hell not? Thursday, 11 June 2009. The Tube has been in the news rather a lot of late, with train drivers refusing to work unless they get a 5% increase to their frankly rather nice salary. But this is not going to be about that. There are many more fascinating things to say about the Tube than ‘fucking drivers…fucking union…fucking £40k to press “start” and “stop” all day’ etc etc. So the Tube, right? Logical (that’s what the word means, right? Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).
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Fact of the Week: Guy Fawkes: Quite Some Guy
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Fact of the Week. Oh, why the hell not? Thursday, 5 November 2009. Guy Fawkes: Quite Some Guy. Given that, until I was about 10, I thought Guy Fawkes was a national hero whose marvellousness was celebrated annually by means of brilliant fireworks, a few choice facts seem to have slipped through the net. Three things I did not know about the Gunpowder Plot until today:. Lord Monteagle made the letter public – possibly so that the conspirators would hear that they risked being rumbled – and the...Which pre...
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Fact of the Week: Headlines: Behold the Front Page
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Fact of the Week. Oh, why the hell not? Friday, 20 November 2009. Headlines: Behold the Front Page. LUNG CONDITION AWARENESS CONCERN. CREDIT CARD SECURITY BREACH FEAR. And one that’s managed to slip in just a very short non-noun:. JAIL FOR HANDBAG FIRE ROW WOMAN. As one of my current favourite bloggers so rightly points out. Headlines these days sound like cryptic crossword clues. Newspaper, champion of boobies and Our Boys, and hater of anyone who won’t get their boobies out for Our Boys. That last one&...
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Fact of the Week: Father Christmas: Not topical in February
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Fact of the Week. Oh, why the hell not? Sunday, 1 February 2009. Father Christmas: Not topical in February. It’s the 1st of February, so what better subject for today’s facts than Father Christmas? For reasons best known to myself, I know lots of Santa facts, and intend to trundle them out whenever I’m stumped for a topical subject. So, ’twas the night before Christmas (in 1823) when Clement Clarke Moore’s poem ‘A Visit from Saint Nicholas’ appeared in New York’s. His dimples how merry! Were available in...
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Fact of the Week: April 2009
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Fact of the Week. Oh, why the hell not? Tuesday, 28 April 2009. Sunflowers: Evil Geniuses (Genii? I currently have ten sunflowers shooting up like triffids all around my home, although admittedly two of them are recovering from unfortunate decapitation incidents. Sunflowers rock. They grow terrifyingly quickly and can quite happily reach about ten feet in height. Although they’re a bit thick in some ways – what sort of flower flops in half if it’s not manacled to a stick? Sunday, 5 April 2009. For the la...
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Fact of the Week: Moon landings: 'One small step for everyone.'
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Fact of the Week. Oh, why the hell not? Wednesday, 22 July 2009. Moon landings: 'One small step for everyone.'. In May 1961, JFK announced: ‘I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth.’. Poor Michael Collins never actually made it to the moon since someone had to man the space shuttle Apollo 11. Nk a strongly worded letter is in order. Secondly, Neil Armstrong made a total balls-up of...
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Fact of the Week: November 2009
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Fact of the Week. Oh, why the hell not? Friday, 27 November 2009. When we think about geniuses (genii? Or is that many genies? We obviously think about Einstein and his ilk. You’d probably include Pythagoras on your list, although lord knows his much-ballyhooed theorem hasn’t done me much good in life; and Darwin, despite his anxieties about raising a mad and inbred family. And maybe Shakespeare, if you ignore The. So-called) Comedy of Errors. Poll – Who Is The Greatest Living Genius? Her enormous brain ...
