We are the food we eat, but how safe is it? Farmers quite often use what they call plant protection products; most people call them pesticides. They vary in concentration and it’s claimed harvest could be as low as 50% without them. But, is that 50% that will give normal levels of food, or is […]

There has been a recent discovery of a large oil reserve in the British Antarctic Territory by Russian scientists or ‘Resource Investigators,’ maybe equal to 50 times the size of the deposits in the North Sea. Although it may appear so, this is not good news. The area is currently covered by the Antarctic Treaty […]

Likely the sea is going to rise about 10m then stop. It’s done that quite a few times in the past when nobody is around to monitor it. Global warming will likely pause for a while, maybe 10,000 years before rising another 10m. Looking at the past million years data and a traffic analysis of […]

Why do civilisations and societies fail. Neglect. The assumption that a system can look after itself, not requiring constant tending, updating, maintenance and a backup if things go wrong will be the downfall of it. It can’t work, but many in this country think it can, minimal provision in everything. You can’t run one area […]

Nearly all medicines were, and still are tailored to ‘the standard person,’ quite often standard American, or Standard European, something itself that has changed over the years, but medicine not necessarily updating appropriate to the modern need, using healthy standards of the 1960’s average body. Do human bodies conform to 300mg, 50mg, 10mg once a […]

Researchers drilling boreholes in 2017 under the Antarctic, discovered under the ice in a sediment core near Pine Island Glacier, (75°10′S 100°0′W) near the Amundsen Sea in West Antarctica fossil roots, pollen, spores and amber from a 90 million year old rainforest using a CT scan (computed tomography). The fossils would come from a dense […]

It pays to have a short memory and to try to do good at first. There have been a number of scientific studies on interpersonal and transactional relationships, many starting from a simplistic point with pigeonholing, and trying to build from that. When I was studying statistics at university in the 70’s I sort of […]

UK government planning to rely on mainly wind and solar for power, with nuclear as a backup, but power from solar and wind set to reduce to nearly zero this week, Britain’s two planned mainly foreign financed and run nuclear facilities still way behind schedule and many times the planned cost, with most other older […]

How common are massive solar storms? The problem is historical data, the only real event that has been recorded in modern times being the Carrington event of 1859. This itself was only noticed because Richard Carrington and Richard Hodgson happened to be looking at the sun to record the event, and linked it to a […]

The outage today, 19/07/2024, to do with Microsoft and Crowdstrike was probably cloud related. It’s the old problem of resilience, with limited alternative avenues. Everybody having their own storage and their own access for things, allowed for with distributed services. Clouds are extremely centralised, so if there are problems you lose the lot, airlines, rail […]