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Brian Clegg
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Murder in the Parish - Faith Martin ***
I like to read a police procedural on a regular basis as I find them strangely relaxing. This is the twentieth of Faith Martin's novels featuring (former now) DI Hillary Greene. I picked it partly because I particularly enjoy a village-based or church-related murder (having written several myself). Greene by now is a retired DI, acting as a consultant for Thames Valley Police (I never understa
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| It's common advice to would-be authors of narrative non-fiction to open with something dramatic - Matthew Myerscough certainly does this with the story of his being trapped under an avalanche on Snowdon (while his girlfriend, also carried away remain ...more | |
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| A whole generation of astronomy enthusiasts in the UK (me included) were engaged in the subject by Patrick Moore's TV show The Sky at Night. In this 2003 autobiography, Moore concentrates on his career from writing his first book in 1953, skipping ov ...more | |
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| As Vivienne Ming makes apparent, there seem largely to be two views of AI's pros and cons, both of which are almost certainly wrong. It's either doom-saying 'It'll destroy life as we know it' or Pollyanna-ish 'It'll do all the boring work and we can ...more | |
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For some inexplicable reason, police procedural and fantasy work well together. Before later flabbiness, for example, the Rivers of London series was excellent. And so far, Eva St. John’s Flint in the Bones is, if anything, even better. It starts in ...more |
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| This is a hugely intriguing piece of science fiction writing. You might think, given that the main setting of this novel is the University of Warwick, that it's a scientific equivalent of Malcolm Bradbury's The History Man, but it's not humour - it's ...more | |
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| In a world where social media feeds people more of the same, reinforcing our existing views, it’s refreshing to read a book that sets out a viewpoint apparently diametrically opposed to my own (as a science writer), especially as the reality is that ...more | |
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| The 'cosy crime' genre has become massive, particularly thanks to books where a small gang of amateurs somehow beats the professionals to the solution (think The Thursday Murder Club and The Marlow Murder Club). Generally, this approach has one huge ...more | |
“Newton’s law of gravitation. That’s all you need (with a spot of calculus to crunch the numbers) to work out how the Earth will orbit the Sun or how an apple will fall if you let it go at a certain height. The only trouble is that Newton had no idea how this gravity thing worked. His model was simply: ‘There is an attraction between bits of stuff, and let’s not bother about why.”
― Gravitational Waves: How Einstein's spacetime ripples reveal the secrets of the universe
― Gravitational Waves: How Einstein's spacetime ripples reveal the secrets of the universe
“Famously, Einstein said that his ‘happiest thought’ occurred here: ‘I was sitting in a chair in the Patent Office at Bern when all of a sudden a thought occurred to me. If a person falls freely he will not feel his own weight. I was startled.’ By thinking of someone falling, for example in a plummeting lift, Einstein had realised that it was impossible to distinguish acceleration and the pull of gravity. And working through the mathematical implications of this made it clear that gravity was an effect that could be produced by a distortion of space and time.”
― Gravitational Waves: How Einstein's spacetime ripples reveal the secrets of the universe
― Gravitational Waves: How Einstein's spacetime ripples reveal the secrets of the universe
“The year 1992 should have been remembered as the 700th anniversary of the death of a man who changed the world. Yet the occasion passed without note. Few know of the remarkable achievements of someone who, more than any other, can be said to have invented science.”
― Roger Bacon: The First Scientist
― Roger Bacon: The First Scientist
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