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Apr
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iON The World
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Remember when Lady Kitty Spencer, Princess Diana’s 17-year-old niece, booked a taxi to take her to watch a Chelsea game at Stamford Bridge, and ended up in Stamford Bridge, Yorkshire, rather a long way from its namesake stadium off the Fulham Road? (more…)
Apr
1
It’s so tempting to buy ready-grown courgette or pumpkin plants, as they are available now in garden centres. Resist!
Instead, put black plastic down to warm the soil (it should be warm by mid-May). Protect young plants with horticultural fleece or recycled cloches of plastic water bottles (bottoms cut off). (more…)
Apr
1
Why are taxis hard to find on rainy days? Now that is a question that traditional economics struggles to answer. Economists tell us that on rainy days when taxis are in demand more drivers will work and increase the supply. The taxi driver disagrees… (more…)
Apr
1
Mivlos, the ramblings of a technophile by Oli Mival
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We are a few months into 2009, the days are getting longer, the leaves are returning to the trees and there are lambs frollicking in fields. Well, I imagine there are; I live in a city so all that’s frollicking for me are the drunk students outside the chip shop. (more…)
Apr
1
Spring Greens
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Make your garden grow while helping the UK with a big environmental headache
The UK is running out of holes in the ground to bury our waste. Our landfill malaise is a national problem that is also unsightly and causes emissions of the super potent greenhouse gas methane. (more…)
Apr
1
Sex and Robots? Not This Time … Meet the Maestro Robots!
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This amazing piece of engineering includes robot lips and lungs which, together with the dexterity of the robot’s hands, enable the robot to imitate the vibrations emanating from a human mouth. Its début performance caused one reviewer to claim that the robot played as well as Louis Armstrong! (more…)
Jan
1
iON the World
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Romance is doomed - at least a third of passengers on this bus have been or will go through a divorce. Hopefully they will be those of the ‘friendly’ type and won’t involve such drastic action as taken by Moeun Rim and wife, Nhanh, of a village in rural Cambodia. (more…)
Jan
1
Letter from St Petersburg, by the Magdalen Boy, Tom Clark
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St. Petersburg is, in a fashion, somewhat like Cambridge. Peter the Great visited Europe, was impressed by a rational Enlightenment model for civilisation and borrowed the best bits in order to found his own distilled version of Europe, like a God, forging his own envisaged order out of the shapeless marsh and leading Russia out of its supposedly dark and backward state. (more…)
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