Astronomers are a stubborn and hardy breed. Not only is it a largely nocturnal activity, but the best weather for viewing is usually in the winter, when colder weather brings…
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Reasons to be Creative is a 3-track, 3-day conference held annually in Brighton, in the UK. I say “conference” but, as was noted this year, the vibe is more that of…
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A little bit of history was made last month. So far as I can tell it didn’t make the news but I feel it should be recorded as it marks…
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I’ve been having something of a digital spring clean. Moving web hosts was long overdue but while we’re at it why not clean out the whole stack? So my old…
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The Venice Time Machine is an interesting project underway at the Digital Humanities Lab of Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL). The team have embarked on a ten year digitisation…
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Last year I went searching for a new web hosting provider. My criteria was very specific and in fact I only found one company in a position to fulfil it…
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The History and Future of Everything is a beautiful infographic movie showing the increasingly vast timescales of Big History. The work is a collaboration between the blog WaitButWhy and the information…
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There’s a long tradition with online journals (I’ve never really liked the term “blogging”) of reflecting on the old year before starting fresh with the new. So as it’s new…