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Nano Tubes
Leave a CommentWritten by: Tony Harris, February 25, 2016 One of the things I learned at university was how to research a subject. How to go into a library and find the information I needed, traversing the Dewey Decimal System as I went. If I got really stuck I’d dip into an encyclopedia, but this only […]
No Win, No Fee Promise
Leave a CommentWritten by: Tony Harris, February 18, 2016 All the ‘personal injury attorneys’ these days offer a ‘No win, No Fee Promise’. But if you win, they charge you between 30 – 40% of your award and often add expenses on top of that. These are shady characters indeed and have a morality of a lower […]
A Picture Paints a Thousand Words
Leave a CommentWritten by: Tony Harris, February 18, 2016 -So the saying goes; how true it is. The saying is attributed to various people in the early 20th century. The forms differ slightly: “a look is worth…” “a picture is worth…” David Gates, of the musical group Bread, penned “If a picture paints a thousand words” […]
Gravitational Waves
Leave a CommentWritten by: Tony Harris, February 11, 2016 So it seems that Einstein was right. Did you doubt him? Today it has been announced that for the first time ‘gravitational waves’ have been detected. Einstein predicted their existence in his theory of General Relativity. But, he didn’t think that we would ever be able to […]
Cold Tea
Leave a CommentWritten by: Tony Harris, February 5, 2016 Latent Heat of Fusion must be one of the most boring topics in physics. They throw in words like ‘enthalpy’ and discuss ‘total energy’ and ‘pressure-volume systems’ and wonder why the class has fallen asleep. I was fortunate. I had a magnificent physics teacher. He would […]
May the Force Be With You
Leave a CommentWritten by: Tony Harris, January 31, 2016 As storm troopers march on, heralding the biggest ever Hollywood box office success, we should perhaps ask ourselves what is ‘force’. There are actually only four known forces in the universe. Gravitation is a force. This is a force that exists between any two objects of mass. […]
Fantastic Voyage
Leave a CommentWritten by: Tony Harris, January 29, 2016 Do you remember the movie? Raquel Welch was in it, if that helps. She and four men were ‘miniaturized’ and injected inside a human body to carry out a few ‘repairs’. Fanciful stuff indeed. I mean; how could you miniaturize four guys let alone Raquel, and would […]
Homeward Bound
Leave a CommentWritten by: Tony Harris, January 26, 2016 So the plan is LHR-IAD-ROC 24th of January on United. I have a good friend Rose Bompardre who is a flight attendant for UA. Her comment was “Yep that’s not happening.” Another good friend and mentor of mine, John Stratakos, keeps sending me helpful tidbits of […]
Thomas Hardy
Leave a CommentWritten by: Tony Harris, January 16, 2016 Last Tuesday I had the serendipitous fortune to visit Thomas Hardy’s birth place in Higher Bockhampton near the town of Dorchester in Dorset County, England. I’d recently seen the film ‘Far from the Madding Crowd’. Here is a poet and author whose writings elucidate life in […]
Life & Times
Leave a CommentWritten by: Tony Harris, January 15, 2016 All life has a concept of time. Most humans will glance at a watch or clock several times a day to‘re-calibrate’ our internal clock. Dogs, they say, use the strength to a scent to determine time. I am not sure how they know that. Animals and plant […]