The Train Arriving Could Be at?
George Stephenson was not only Father of the Railways, this amazing man of the North East was by association responsible for us knowing what...
Clever Dogs
Many of us have dogs and we know that sometimes they are way ahead of us with an intuition that is quite astonishing. One wonders...
Glass Half Full or Glass Half Empty?
I heard a lady on the bus say that it is only 165 days to Christmas. The person next to her said, ‘Yes, the family...
Save Our Hedgehogs
Years ago there was a tasteless joke circulating, ‘Why did the hedgehog cross the road? To visit its flat mate’. The point is when...
Practice makes Perfect?
Wrong. Practice makes permanent. For those of us who have driven a car for a number of years, including those who drive for a...
Black Holes
A group of academics at the University of Durham’s Institute of Computational Cosmology have been trying to make sense of what caused ‘supermassive’ black...
Behind Every Great Man there is a Great Woman?
We live in interesting times, do we not? Currently we have the enervating spectacle of our politicians fighting it out on both sides of...
Good News on Climate Change?
Reported on the BBC Today Programme, on July 1st, the North American Space Agency (NASA), the clever chaps behind sending people into outer space...
What’s Happening? Check the Odds
If you want to know what is happening in the World check the betting odds. No, I am not suggesting that anybody gambles, never...
The Botanical Gardens in Durham
You don’t have to be a gardening fan to love a nice garden. However, for those who do love to get down and dirty...
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