Archive for August, 2007
A doubling of my Sevara collection
August 25th, 2007 by Roger Darlington
As regular visitors to NightHawk will know, I love travelling to other countries and experiencing other cultures. Every time I visit a new country, I like to hear some of that nation’s music, either traditional or contemporary. Last year, I visited Uzbekistan [my account here] and discovered the music of a young Uzbek singer called […]
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How small is an atom?
August 24th, 2007 by Roger Darlington
I send out a “Thought For The Week” and this week’s thought is as follows: “The range of sizes, distances or speeds with which our imaginations are comfortable is a tiny band, set in the midst of a gigantic range of the possible, from the scale of quantum strangeness at the smaller end to the […]
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How BIG is the universe?
August 24th, 2007 by Roger Darlington
I send out a “Thought For The Week” and this week’s thought is as follows: “The range of sizes, distances or speeds with which our imaginations are comfortable is a tiny band, set in the midst of a gigantic range of the possible, from the scale of quantum strangeness at the smaller end to the […]
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The best exibition in town
August 23rd, 2007 by Roger Darlington
One of the wonderful features of living in London is the access to so many art galleries, museums and exhibitions. Currently one of the very best exhibitions is called “Spirit & Life”. This is located at the Ismaili Centre at South Kensington. There are 167 superb artifacts from the future Aga Khan Museum which is […]
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“Enemies Of Reason” (2)
August 22nd, 2007 by Roger Darlington
I’ve been away so I’ve only just seen the second programme in the two-part series on Channel Four television entitled “Enemies Of Reason”. In the first programme – on which I blogged here – Richard Dawkins attacked astrology, card reading, clairvoyance and dowsing. In this programme, he targeted various non-scientific claims to healing such as […]
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Down to the coast
August 21st, 2007 by Roger Darlington
Vee and I have just returned from a couple of days visiting her twin sister Mari and her brother-in-law Derek on the south coast of England. It ‘s two-hour drive from our home in London so we broke the journey by stopping for coffee at a place we haven’t visited before, an excellent pub, restaurant […]
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Same objects but different words
August 21st, 2007 by Roger Darlington
In space it is called a meteoroid; in the atmosphere, it is termed a meteor; and, once it reaches earth, we describe it as a meteorite. In the North Atlantic and Northeast Pacific, it is called a hurricane; in the Northwest Pacific, it is termed a typhoon; and, in the Indian Ocean, it is described […]
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Would you like to find some stardust?
August 20th, 2007 by Roger Darlington
On 15 January 2006, the Stardust spacecraft’s sample return capsule parachuted gently onto the Utah desert. Nestled within the capsule were precious particles collected during Stardust’s dramatic encounter with comet Wild 2 in January of 2004 and something else, even rarer and no less precious: tiny particles of interstellar dust that originate in distant stars, […]
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The law of attraction
August 18th, 2007 by Roger Darlington
I think that most people who know me would regard me as a very positive and optimistic person, but I think that the so-called law of attraction is utter nonsense. I’ve blogged on this subject before here, but I’m returning to the idea now because it has featured quite prominently in a series of e-mail […]
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Looking for that perfect gift?
August 18th, 2007 by Roger Darlington
Look no further – you’ll find it here.
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