Archive for April, 2008

A Sunny Outlook?

Monday, April 14th, 2008

Once again, the Sun’s influence on the current state of our climate has been called into question, with the link between incoming cosmic rays and global warming being refuted. Meanwhile, Solar Cycle 24 has got off to a grindingly slow start. Where have all the sunspots gone? Back in June 2007, I wrote about some [...]

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Pixies In My Fridge

Saturday, April 12th, 2008

Things disappear without a trace, you search everywhere to no avail, and then they turn up again unexpectedly and in odd places. We’ve all experienced it — but what’s really behind such events? Just poor memory? Or something more exotic? One of my favourite magazines, Fortean Times, often carries letters from readers who’ve experienced that [...]

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Snatched Conversations: On Pete Atkin

Tuesday, April 1st, 2008

Talking of Cuddly Ken’s favourites: what about Pete Atkin‘s Master Of The Revels? Lyrics by Clive James (who was on the BBC’s The One Show tonight, which reminded me of it). By a complete coincidence, I learnt tonight, when I found Pete Atkin’s web site, that it was actually recorded on 1st April 1970 — [...]

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