From time to time I get emails like this: Dear Brian M, We are pleased to announce that Marquis Who’s Who has selected you for our official 2018 Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award. You have been selected to receive this prestigious award as a result of your hard work […]
Year: 2018
I went to the Natural History Museum in Dublin, and took some pictures
And here they are… It’s a super-quaint nineteenth-century cabinet museum, where almost everything is catalogued and exhibited in glass cases. There is no VR here, no animatronic T-Rexes, no interactive installations or contrived ‘Did You Know?’ infographics in Comic Sans. I’m convinced that some of the furniture is of similar […]
Go check out ‘NotTheScienceBit.net’
It’s been seven years since I started this blog. That’s quite a chunk of my life. And, as the context changes, so does my perspective. Not everything fits neatly into The Science Bit. In recent years I have written a couple of books on the scientific strengths and weaknesses of […]
Argument over toilet breaks down on (civil war) political lines
How can you ensure the success of a toilet? Maybe…call it a ‘Superloo‘? Well maybe not. In the news today is one such ‘super’ toilet which cost my hometown over half a million euro to install — plus €250,000 in subsequent maintenance fees — but which, according to official figures, made […]
Brian thinks chicken pox is normal, Harper is confused
Speaking as a Brian, I can confirm that this is true… In my 1970s childhood, everyone got chicken pox sooner or later. Whenever I felt unwell, I would eagerly look for the red blotches that would confirm my destiny. The ‘pocks’, as I thought they were, each individual mark representing a single […]
Microsoft pushes boundaries of keyboard design, at expense of user sanity
Have a look at the keyboard on the new Microsoft Surface Pro: See where the Power Off button is located? Yep. Right there, right next to the ‘Delete’ key. So when you need to delete the last letter you’ve typed, heck, with your eyes closed you just might power the […]
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