Whilst not on the main tourists routes, the Clifton Suspension Bridge is an incredible sight and this weekend reached its 150th birthday since it was opened in 1864. The bridge spans the Avon Gorge near Briston and is a remarkable sight either from on the bridge itself or from the river or road that runs… Continue reading The Clifton Suspension Bridge celebrates 150 years!
Category: Science and Engineering
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Once you go Mac, you never go back!
There is a saying in the Apple community, that once you go Mac, you never go back. Three weeks ago I went Mac and I thought that I would write a little about my experiences. It was probably the longest switch over in history as I had been slowly but surely dabbling in Apple products… Continue reading Once you go Mac, you never go back!
The tragic genius of Alan Turing and The Imitation Game
If you’re not familiar with the name Alan Turing, the chances are that you soon will be with the release of the new film, The Imitation Game, starring Benedict Cumberbatch in the starring role. Alan Turing holds a unique place in history as being someone who not only one of the greatest minds in… Continue reading The tragic genius of Alan Turing and The Imitation Game
Edward Jenner – The greatest man you might never have heard of
This morning I received my free Flu vaccination and a time when nearly all of us are fortunate enough to receive vaccinations and inoculations for many illnesses from the winter flu upwards it is well worth remembering that there was once a time when people weren’t so lucky. When there were countless diseases and infections… Continue reading Edward Jenner – The greatest man you might never have heard of
Apple or Microsoft – The big dilemma
All these years of blogging I have been working on a 10 year old + PC, sometimes a first generation iPod and in the last year just occasionally an iPad Air. Writing out a long blog on an iPod is quite a labour of love. The tiny keyboard makes writing out a blog of several… Continue reading Apple or Microsoft – The big dilemma
The death of the Aral Sea
Once the fourth largest inland body of water in the world and half the size of England has over the last few decades almost totally disappeared. The Aral Sea sits in the middle of the Kyzylkum Desert fed by the two rivers, the Syr Darya and Amu Darya. It wasn’t really a sea but a… Continue reading The death of the Aral Sea
How Technology Can Help Solve The Water Crisis In Africa
As I mentioned a few weeks ago, I was thrilled that I was approached and then commissioned to write for one of the leading academic environmental magazines in the world, TerraGreen after they read my post on The Green Wall of Africa. I was thrilled that it was made the March 2014 Cover Story with… Continue reading How Technology Can Help Solve The Water Crisis In Africa
Clouds loom over the 25th birthday of the World Wide Web
You might not know it but the modern internet is 25 years old today! It started life as an idea in a paper written by a young computer scientist named Tim Berners-Lee in a rather obscure laboratory in Europe known as CERN. At first his idea wasn’t exactly taken on enthusiastically by his colleagues with… Continue reading Clouds loom over the 25th birthday of the World Wide Web
How Google Keeps The Roads Moving
Like pretty much everyone, I used Google nearly every day. In fact probably dozens of times a day. I don’t use it as much as I used to due to privacy concerns and there are no shortage of alternative search engines and service providers that don’t misuse my data or let untrustworthy governments spy on… Continue reading How Google Keeps The Roads Moving
A brief history of time(zones) or why do we keep changing the clocks?
Some of us have just done it and others are about to do it but this week sees many of us changing our clocks to go onto winter time but why do we do this often quite annoying ritual. In the old days every town and village in effect had its own time-zone. When the… Continue reading A brief history of time(zones) or why do we keep changing the clocks?
Stephen Liddell 