By Mark Palmer on March 30, 2012
Look at this picture and tell me about it. I am seeing the same picture as you – right?…no wrong. The picture may be the same to both of us, but what you see or I see are likely to be very different. Some of us will tell you about the mayonaise, the 3 cans [...]
By Mark Palmer on March 10, 2011
In 1967 a graduate intern from Cambridge working towards her PHD helped discover one of the major break throughs in our understanding of science and the universe. Her name was Jocelyn Bell and what she helped discover was something we now call Pulsars. Pulsars are highly magnetized, rotating neutron stars that emit a beam of electromagnetic radiation. Neutron [...]
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By Mark Palmer on July 22, 2010
I was once told that there were two ways to really judge a restaurant. These were (a) how warm the bread rolls were and (b) the toliets. Now I’ve had some warm rolls. I’ve also seen some designer toilets. I’ve had the uncomfortable feeling of a toilet with a valet. A man (one time a [...]