Hugh Aldersey-Williams
@hoooaw.bsky.social
Dutch Light: Christiaan Huygens and the Making of Science in Europe, Tide, The Adventures of Sir Thomas Browne in the 21st Century, Periodic Tales and other things.
Fantastic! Have a feeling John Winter learnt a lot about how to deal with council planning depts from this. He was very good at it (designing additions to our 18c Norfolk (UK) home).
November 19, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Fantastic! Have a feeling John Winter learnt a lot about how to deal with council planning depts from this. He was very good at it (designing additions to our 18c Norfolk (UK) home).
That’s lovely to hear. Not many discoveries in chemistry could cut through to a ten-year-old I fear.
November 19, 2025 at 7:11 PM
That’s lovely to hear. Not many discoveries in chemistry could cut through to a ten-year-old I fear.
Ha! It passed you by too then?
November 19, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Ha! It passed you by too then?
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Ha! Well he wasn't wrong, I don't think. A form of collective hysteria, he told Klug. John Maddox – an anniversary maniac – began preparing the 50th anniversary at the time of the 40th. Sometimes he hit the nail on the head, though, as in this cover of Nature from the *21st* anniversary:
November 19, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Ha! Well he wasn't wrong, I don't think. A form of collective hysteria, he told Klug. John Maddox – an anniversary maniac – began preparing the 50th anniversary at the time of the 40th. Sometimes he hit the nail on the head, though, as in this cover of Nature from the *21st* anniversary:
Yes, I’m with Crick on anniversaries, scientific or personal. But journalism needs its pretexts. Loving ‘Crick’ very much.
November 19, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Yes, I’m with Crick on anniversaries, scientific or personal. But journalism needs its pretexts. Loving ‘Crick’ very much.
Hope you can find a copy! Otherwise, a first go-round of my deconstruction of the buckyball paper is included in The Most Beautiful Molecule (Aurum) / The Discovery of the Buckyball (Wiley)
November 13, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Hope you can find a copy! Otherwise, a first go-round of my deconstruction of the buckyball paper is included in The Most Beautiful Molecule (Aurum) / The Discovery of the Buckyball (Wiley)
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It's also not "just another" extinction, it's the first from mainland Europe in centuries. CENTURIES.
And there will be others within our lifetime.
That's biodiversity loss.
We'll never hear this sound, ever again xeno-canto.org/398794
And there will be others within our lifetime.
That's biodiversity loss.
We'll never hear this sound, ever again xeno-canto.org/398794
XC398794 Slender-billed Curlew (Numenius tenuirostris)
Awful wind noise in the original!
See sonogram and notes of the recording circumstances on p12 of Gretton A. (1991) The ecology and conservation of the Slender-billed Curlew (Numenius tenuirostris). ...
xeno-canto.org
October 10, 2025 at 9:00 AM
It's also not "just another" extinction, it's the first from mainland Europe in centuries. CENTURIES.
And there will be others within our lifetime.
That's biodiversity loss.
We'll never hear this sound, ever again xeno-canto.org/398794
And there will be others within our lifetime.
That's biodiversity loss.
We'll never hear this sound, ever again xeno-canto.org/398794