I Dream of Utopia

And the dynamic universe Prof Carole Mundell started in 2007 as prof in Bath Sun is an ordinary star. Gives us life. Light colour of distant galaxies tells us about physics of stars. Such as Doppler shift and whether stars are new bright blue stars or old dying red stars. Cro magnon man drew cave paintings of constellation. Such as Taurus the bull or Orion with a planet crossing it's path leading to a new feature. Kepler saw moons about Jupiter. Took his gamma ray burst data. Found a pattern for the planets orbit. Stellar mass black holes a few miles across 300 times mass of our sun collapse at the end of their lives. Shadow of a black hole. Detecting a black hole: detect mass falling in to black hole such as stars and gas and their movements due to the gravity. Merlin massive radio telescope near border with Wales. Auger network of detectors in S America. Non-stellar AGN emissions massive jets of particles and gas emitted explained by black hole. Spinning dis...

William Gaskell's Philosophy of Happiness in the Modern World RE Michael Plant’s talk at Oxford Brookes http://www.plantinghappiness.co.uk/whats-happiness-for-anyway/ When you introduce the concept of happiness as following on from Ancient Greek thought it is like you are introducing philosophy. RE Genghis Khan: One point I would make is that I think happiness is achieved through the feeling of effortlessly accomplishing your goals, with God’s grace, and receiving joy for it. That cosmic resonance with the universal governing authority making you one of the polity, one of the people who really lived. RE Aristotle: Well being is linked to doing things on your terms or as per your ideals. James Bond must be living in such a shallow world to be pursuing happiness in his way. Things need to be in the right context to make people happy. People seem to have to find a way of feeling good about their situation in order to succeed. There seem to be different perspect...

Talk by Professor Hankin Imperial College London. Computer science lecturer since 1984 recently worked on cyber regulation. BSc city university PhD Westfield university now defunct. Work: Game theory and data analytics. Twitter traffic related to disease. - Notes by William Gaskell Started in computing in 1971. Has a picture with some BBC computers working at ITN on security when the internet was first developed in 1974. On feed from Reuters and other agencies. He would type election results in to news graphics generator. Account hijacking such as taking someone's Facebook account is typical attack related to clicking on dodgy link or visit dodgy page. Buffer overflow 40 year old known vulnerability that was exploited recently. Heartbleed vulnerability. Delay in applying patching software led to the vulnerability being so widely exploited. One point of concern is sticking someone else's USB stick, a known way malware can be introduced. Companies can be fined ...

Illustration of negative refraction taken from On The Properties of Optical Metamaterials Report Author: W.O.L. Bellamy, M.T.A. Hatcher et al. Optical metamaterials are an artificial type of composite material, with the unique property of refracting light ‘negatively’, or in the opposite way to conventional materials using the conventional optical model. Due to this they are also known as Negative Index Materials (NIMs) or Left-Handed Materials (LHMs). The field of optical metamaterials was originally conceived by Soviet scientist Victor Veselago in 1967 with the theoretical possibility of negative refraction using a combination of both simultaneously negative permeability and permittivity values. It was not until Sir John Pendry’s further theoretical work on this concept enabled the first physical demonstration of negative refraction by Dr D.R. Smith in 2001. Pendry showed that it was possible to create an effective negative permittivity and permeability on a scale larger th...

Mark, my response to your concerns would be to tell you about my industry: In the nuclear industry missing targets and deadlines in the supply chain has bent the whole delivery of new reactors out of schedule and turned a 5 year, £3 billion build into a project that cost £10 billion extra and took 10 years longer* using a discounted cash flow. Similarly, in your industry you've been let down and abused by people outside of government: people from the lowest tier of education/experience only need to know of people from the top tier being treated properly to be healthy because of socioeconomics having physical implications in our world. I'm worried that my friend caught a chest infection and is missing his commitments in church as a result but I blame Tony Blair and his Protection from Harassment Act and his famous quote: "Education, education, education". The nuclear industry would mainly want rate payers at the bottom end of the income spectrum - the working ...

[slideshare id=26535288&doc=egyptpsrstudent-130925071919-phpapp01] Egypt: Politics, Society, Religion de Lyricus I just had a thought come to me today about what Jeremy Corbyn's Labour party were saying about the three classes in British society, following on from my Pilgrim course on the Beatitudes where I think Jesus refers to Ancient Egyptian society in Matthew's Gospel when Christ had authority over the scribes in the temple making him at the top of the Egyptian society pyramid (you can Google it for a diagram): Corbyn must have been referring to the classes as those known by: 1) who have big established names/titles/property to go off (crips in US street slang, Upper class in informal British), 2) educations/qualifications/job titles/professions (bloods in US street slang, Middle Class in informal British) 3) medical diagnosis/convictions/notoriety/celebrity/personalities (vatos locos Mexican for crazy dudes in US street slang, Lower class in informal Briti...

Advent Chicken Wash hands thoroughly before and after touching raw meat, as well as before and after cooking. "An army marches on its stomach!" - Napoleon Bonaparte Ingredients: Organic Free Range Chicken   cut into fillets/legs/thighs 600g One organic leek Half a dozen organic carrots A few organic apples Organic black peppercorns Organic tarragon A couple of organic cloves. 300g rice One organic red cabbage Organic cider vinegar Organic cardamom Organic vanilla essence Salt Olive oil Serves four people. Cooking and preparation time 45-50 minutes. Preheat oven to 200-220 degrees centigrade Wash apples and vegetables thoroughly, removing any dirt and prepare by peeling carrots, and removing outer layers from cabbage and leek and cutting off the ends of the leek. Placed chopped carrots and leek on the base of a baking tray, using tin foil to line the tray. Core apples and insert a clove into the hole then add to ...