Science Connections puzzles
Blimey, these are hard!
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Flickr goes one better with photo maps
I don’t know whether to laugh or cry. First the laughter: Flickr has recently launched a fully integrated mapping tool (as opposed to a few other sites which had been doing it via tags and the Flickr API) and it’s flippin’ clever. As an example go to the Kew Gardens Read more …
eBay bonanza!
Much to the annoyance of the Other Half, I seemed to spend every spare minute last week doing a mass listing on eBay. Having bought many more vintage photos at auction than I could possibly want (or afford), it was time for a clearout of the surplus stuff, the ones Read more …
Friday dilemna – stay in, or go out?
Drama hit the tranquility of west London last night when Fire sparked overnight evacuation in South Ealing, just down the road from me. The immediate and real drama was for those in the vicinity, including a few friends of ours, who faced a sudden evacuation in the middle of the Read more …
The dangers of searching for plants names on Google
I don’t often read the Stamford Mercury in my quest for botanical news, but in the mysterious way that the web works (or sometimes doesn’t) I found myself at their story Plant mystery solved!. It seems they published a story about a mystery plant (subsequently identified by Kew Gardens as Read more …
What, you can eat wild plants?
The BBC seems very proud to reveal that blackberries grow on plants and not in plastic punnets. Their BBC Audio slideshow: Food from the wild is portrayed as being something that is a great revelation of a dying past-time. Maybe it’s sitting in the concrete jungle that is White City Read more …