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May 29, 2005ˇNo pasarán!Yep, another blockade has been called for Tuesday. Last Friday we spotted a small components convoy on their way to either Aldermaston or Burghfield and I emailed Nukewatch, a network of dedicated people who keep a constant outlook for nuclear...Read this update Colours and CultureHow is this for a travel-related research project? Paul Kay from the International Computer Science Institute in Berkley, California examined data from no fewer than 110 different cultures around the world, all with unwritten languages. Representatives from each were asked...Read this update May 26, 2005Culture Alert!Local Borth Author Richard Collins had come good with a beautiful first novel which has made it on the Whitbread Book Awards shortlist (and netted him a six figure advance!). The Land as Viewed from the Sea is an intriguing,...Read this update Posted by Denni on May 26, 2005 02:10 PM
Category: May 23, 2005The Laotian 'puzzle mouse'Scientists have made a stunning discovery on a food market in Laos. According to this week's New Scientist (21 May 2005, p. 18), what Robert Timmins from the Wildlife Conservation Society, New York spotted next to a pile of vegetables...Read this update May 20, 2005Green-eyed Monster thoughtsSo what about whale watching in Biscay? For several days now I have walked around in the happy afterglow of a dream day at sea, but I haven't yet found the right words to describe it (I plunged almost straight...Read this update May 16, 2005Aftermath of the BlockadeJust caught up with the Basingstoke Gazette that flutters through our letterbox twice a week. I was pleased that the recent blockade at AWE was mentioned, although the article was very succinct. A journalist was present at the site for...Read this update The Sudoku CrazeThe country is in the grip of a craze. Everywhere—on the tube and trains in cafés and at home—people are obsessively filling in grids with the numbers 1-9 in each column, row and 3x3 square. I first came across one...Read this update May 10, 2005Whale Watching in the Bay of BiscayHurrah, hurrah, I'm off whale watching in the Bay of Biscay tomorrow! That is if I catch the ferry which I should do—it leaves at 20:45. Portsmouth is only just over an hour away from here. The whales are practically...Read this update May 09, 2005They Shall Not Pass! (2)I know democracy is not just about voting. In fact most of it isn't about voting. It is about engaging the government in dialogue, about debate, about protest. This week, delegates from the 187 signatories of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty...Read this update May 05, 2005They Shall Not PassThere will be a blockade at our friendly neighbourhood Atomic Weapons Eastablishment on Monday 9th May and all I can think about is that I can't go to jail because I have booked a ticket on the Wednesday ferry to...Read this update May 03, 2005The Hitchhiker's GuideYesterday we went to see the long-awaited movie of 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy', a film that took so long to get made that Douglas Adams once said it was like trying to cook a steak by having people...Read this update May 02, 2005Spring BBQI've been twitchy since the first buds appeared on the trees, but yesterday it finally looked as if it wouldn't rain all day, so we had a BBQ....Read this update |
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