I Dream of Utopia

Criminals like to be free and have what they want on demand. They are very serious people who are both shallow and very deep depending on what level they need to be to get what they want. So both instant gratification and long term fulfillment appeal to them. The more dangerous ones are more interested in instant gratification. They feel like they owe nothing to everyone else, and everyone owes them something. They feel good just playing their games – they can never be trusted and carry on a bit like a party. Sex does not particularly appeal to them, unless there is some personal involvement or someone seduces them.

Bath in Fashion 2015 Jaeger conversation on style. Fashion writer Hywel Davies in conversation with Anna Sui (esteemed designer) Inspiration ·          NYC wedding as a kid [from Detroit] ·          Advert in back of Life magazine for Parsons School of Fashion – just applied and got on course ·          Had a dream she wanted to create (from Vogue and Mademoiselle magazines) ·          Influenced by NY Punk scene ·          Shopaholic o    New outfit from a thrift shop every day for $5 to look like a rockstar Getting in there ·          Spent time at college mostly going out rather than studying, dropped out in favour of a job after 2 years ·          Got her collectio...

I read a book called 'The Slave Trade' by Nigel Sadler and here are a collection of quotes from that book telling the story of the slave trade which I have posted on various people’s profiles on Facebook: ‎ '...the first known British trader in Africans was John Hawkins. Between 1562 and 1567, Hawkins made four journeys between the Sierra Leone River and Hispaniola (modern day Haiti and the Dominican Republic ), taking a total of 1,200 enslaved Africans to sell to the Spanish settlers.' ‎'prices had already been arranged with the quick for what quantity of each goods a female, male and child slave would raise' ‎' Bristol owes ALL her prosperity, nay, her existence to commerce with the West Indies .' 'I never before witnessed such a Christmas Day; the negroes have been beating their tambourines and dancing the whole day and now between eight and nine o'clock they are pursuing their sport as hotly as ever'. ‎...

New book review: The Eye A Natural History by Simon Ings I don’t like how Simon Ings describes how eye-sight evolves. He seems far too obsessed with his mortality for my tolerance to bear and is verging on ‘mentally unwell’ – perhaps it is his coping mechanism. He says that as you get older the lens in your eye evolves it grows thicker via a process of sedimentation of layers of dead cells and eventually deforms, muscle aside, and you would need artificial lenses to keep focussing. I think that is a form of curable illness. Your brain can direct development of your eye when you are a child to correct visual problems so it can do it to you as a fifty year old. Bad treatment is the cause of bad eye-sight and if Simon Ings were to discard his hang-ups about his own mortality he would know that being an adult is no different to being a child, sure ‘freaks’ still exist but it would also seem that the ‘biblical’ freaks have taken over and we are all being subjected to the Devil’s...

100 Years of Superconductivity, Professor James Annett BRLSI (IOP South West Branch) 6th May 2011 Prof Annett graduated from Cambridge and completed post doctorate studies in Illinois before moving to Bristol in 1994 as a lecturer. 1897   JJ Thompson discovered electron 1900   Mark Plank quantum physics 1905   Albert Einstein and the photo-electric effect, special relativity and Brownian motion 1908   H Kamerlingh Onnes liquefied helium at 3 degrees Kelvin 1987   James Dewar liquefied hydrogen Superconductors expel ALL the magnetic field, they are perfect diamagnets. BCS Theory solved in 1956 which explains such things as ‘coherent states’. Þ     Electron-lattice attraction near Fermi momentum (Energy level) Þ     Leads to Cooper Pairs of electrons Þ     Near band gap energy (The conduction band electrons are all paired up) ‘Gauge symmetry’: Ø ...

Heating and the safety of medical ultrasound, Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Mobile Phones Francis Duck, professor at the University of Bath and Honorary Medical Physics professor at the Royal United Hospital , Bath . BRLSI Wednesday 18 th May 2011 Francis Duck graduated from Nottingham and obtained a PhD from London University . Ultrasound 2 - 20MHz radio frequency. MRI and Mobile Phones 50MHz – 2GHZ radio frequency. ·       This can cause tissue heating via the same mechanism as microwave heating in a microwave oven. (He did not state this himself) ·       Blood travels through the capillaries to carry away heat. [On the speaker: I find he has a very annoying manner. He speaks very badly dithering with “um” and “err” to waste time. He also has a poor rapport with the audience. His presentation is disorganised and the gaps in his delivery seem as though he is thought disordered.] The human bo...

Mental Health and Cardiovascular Disease Risk: What is the role of physical activity? Dr Mark Hamer of UCL at E NHS Lecture Room,   Centre for Sport, Exercise and Health, Tyndall Avenue , University of Bristol on 18 th May 2011 . m.hamer@ucl.ac.uk Mental health accounts for 20% of the disease burden in the European Area and globally. ·       This is put down to stress but Mark Hamer thinks there may be other causes. §   It is thought to be linked to ageing There are two available treatment options for mental health: ·       Anti-depressant drugs ·       CBT (Cognitive Behavioural Therapy) Depression is linked to heart disease ·       There is evidence that tricyclic and other anti-depressants can increase the risk of heart disease by 35% ·       There is poor scientific rigour in the drug trials carried out which is wh...