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Category Archives: News
24 Hours Of Reality: The World Is Watching
24 Hours of Reality is live right now. I’ve followed this for the past couple of years, and it’s worth tuning into, if only for a bit. A massively important topic, that we as humans are running out of time … Continue reading
Junior Doctor Smashes Jeremy Hunt’s Media Lies #ImInWorkJeremy
Clear, concise, informative, and excellent response by a junior doctor to Jeremy Hunt’s contract. It’s getting harder and harder to trust anything our Government and our media tells us, which is an incredibly sad thing to say. Our NHS is great, … Continue reading
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Tagged #ImInWorkJeremy, #saveournhs, BMA, contract, doctor, Government, Jeremy Hunt, junior doctors, media, National Health Service, negotiation, NHS, response, Tories
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Save Our Contracts
Save Our Contracts. Great song about the awful contract that Jeremy Hunt wanted to impose on junior doctors of the NHS. Luckily, 53,000 junior doctors threatening strike action stopped it. For now. Live version, taken at the protests in London, can be seen … Continue reading
Posted in Music, News
Tagged #saveournhs, Jeremy Hunt, junior doctors, live, NHS, Save Our Contracts, strike, The Guardian
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Obama, Visibly Upset, Responds To Oregon Shooting
This speech by Obama is heartbreaking, infuriating, and excellent. You can really tell how angry and infuriated he is at the current state of gun violence and gun laws in the US, and how powerless he is to change it … Continue reading
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Tagged Dean Burnett, firearm, gun, gun violence, guns, law, mass shooting, Obama, Oregon, President Obama, psychology, routine, shooting, speech, The Guardian, UK, US, USA
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A Capella Science – Pluto Mars – Outbound Probe
A Capella Science – Pluto Mars – Outbound Probe. A simply amazing tune by A Capella Science. It’s all about the New Horizons probe and Pluto. NASA released some new images today, of a close-up of the surface of Pluto, … Continue reading
Posted in Music, News, Science
Tagged A Capella Science, Bruno Mars, NASA, New Horizons, Outbound Probe, parody, Pluto, Pluto Mars, probe, Tim Blais, Uptown Funk
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Pluto
It’s hard to have missed the amazing news about Pluto. The New Horizons probe has completed its flyby and sent back the above extraordinary image. Well, minus the few additions that xkcd have added to it! The enormous heart immediately stands out, … Continue reading
Tesla: PowerWall And Oslo To London For €5
“1,300 miles in an electric car in two and a bit days. In February 2015, Robert Llewellyn drove a Tesla Model S P85 from Oslo, Norway, to London, England. This is what happened.” (YouTube) Robert Llewellyn previously tested out the Tesla … Continue reading
Posted in News, Ramblings, Science
Tagged drive, Edinburgh News Motors, England, London, Norway, Oslo, PowerWall, review, Robert Llewellyn, Superchargers, Tesla, Tesla Energy, Tesla Model S, Tesla Model S P85
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Chile’s Calbuco Volcano Eruption
Last week, on Wednesday 22nd April, the Calbuco volcano in Chile erupted. Considering how connected we are in our modern world, videos and photos of the eruption quickly appeared, and they are stunning. The video above is a time lapse … Continue reading
Posted in News, Photography, Science
Tagged Calbuco, Chile, Dot Earth, eruption, Slate, The Independent, The New York Times, time lapse, volcanic lightning, volcano, weather
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The Polio Vaccination
Poliomyelitis was once a deadly and supremely debilitating disease, affecting thousands upon thousands of people, mainly children, each year. Those affected who were lucky enough to get treatment were put into iron lungs to breathe for them. That all changed … Continue reading
Posted in News, Science
Tagged Albert Sabin, anti-vax, blog, children, eradication of polio, iron lungs, Jonas Salk, Maryn McKenna, National Geographic, Oxford University Press, Phenomena, polio, poliomyelitis, vaccination, vaccine, vaccines
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Solar Eclipse March 20th 2015
No Throwback Thursday this week. Instead, links to lots of useful information about tomorrow morning’s solar eclipse! First up, a complete guide to the March 20th total solar eclipse can be found over at Universe Today. ITV News has a … Continue reading
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Tagged 2015, BBC, Earth, eclipse, ITV News, iWonder, NASA, New Scientist, safety, solar eclipse, Sun, Throwback Thursday, total solar eclipse, Universe Today
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