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The Arts of War

December 17, 2020 by Simon Robinson Leave a Comment

How would you defeat the bias of language? I don’t mean a bias that demeans or excludes people. I mean the bias that results from the lack of comprehension. Communication of representational, figurative or abstract thoughts can be tricky, even with a common language. And harder still to convey as the overlap in the roots of language lessen. A Venetian might understand the gist of an Argentinian story but what’s clear when uttered in Japanese is almost certain to be opaque to someone who hears in Greek.

Five Golden Hour Harbour Abstractions
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Filed Under: Anchoritism Tagged With: albert einstein, brian turner, ed sheeran, imperial war museum, joan miró, michelangelo, nagorno-karabakh, turkey, war

Ley Line Walking

October 26, 2020 by Simon Robinson Leave a Comment

Once upon a time, there was a truth to be seen while walking along The Ridgeway among hills in Wiltshire. Night wasn’t falling at all. It was rising. The darkness filled the valleys from the floor up. Another time, after walking 35 km from the White Horse at Uffington, I was collected by my friend who lived locally and told me that everyone knew mobile phones don’t work reliably along the ley lines. Had I only known of the ancient ley lines when I got to Avebury?

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Filed Under: Fake Memoir, ManRom2021 Tagged With: albert einstein, photos, the ridgeway, travel, walking

Uncomfortable Thoughts

September 19, 2020 by Simon Robinson 2 Comments

‘What good is a newborn baby?’ asked Benjamin Franklin in 1783 when people questioned his enthusiasm for the recent invention of hot air ballooning. His predictions that the balloons would become significant for transport was unusually wrong. 250 years later, Loon is a balloon system in the news for delivering the internet in Kenya and elsewhere. Balloons are helping transport information.

Binary: Ferry: Transport: Sea © Simon Robinson 2020
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Filed Under: Anchoritism, Fake Memoir Tagged With: ai, albert einstein, benjamin franklin, enrico fermi, evolution, facebook, fred hoyle, gaia, georges lemaïtre, james lovelock, matt ridley, photo, robin dunbar, stephen hawking

Gravitational Waves And More

September 3, 2020 by Simon Robinson Leave a Comment

There are a few stories in these journals about how technology changes with time (and space). Today, our TV breakfast news was headlined by the story of a collision of two black holes several billion years ago. A redefinition of the concept of a ‘late breaking’ story that we know about because of the sciences. The collision that was detected chirped for less than a tenth of a second on May 21st, 2019. It’s worth noting that mankind only invented the mechanism to record such news recently.

Dark energy? Dark Ages? A Starling sang for me earlier today.
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Filed Under: Fake Memoir Tagged With: albert einstein, astrophysics, booklink, brian greene, caltech, charlemagne, geophysics, LIGO, nature, new scientist, photos, virgo

Plenty of Times 1

June 14, 2020 by Simon Robinson Leave a Comment

How many times do you use? What time phrases suits you? I’ll be with you in a heartbeat. It’ll be done in three shakes of a lamb’s tail. Only six sleeps to your birthday. The empire lasted five generations.

‘Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.’; an old joke is a new tease for grandchildren. Does time really advance like the arrow or is that an illusion? Isn’t it interesting how spacetime can bend with gravity as does the trajectory of the arrow over distances longer than are common in olympic archery?

Timeless Portland Windhover © Simon Robinson 2019
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Filed Under: Anchoritism Tagged With: albert einstein, borg, pech merle, time

Caspian Fishing

May 4, 2020 by Simon Robinson Leave a Comment

We’ll be walking to the Somme this day next year or perhaps the year after, pandemic dependent. The day’s walk will be mostly through lands occupied by Germany in 1916, east of the main battlefields of the Somme. We’ll walk south from Bapaume, passing Combles and finishing in Péronne. I look forward to the opportunity to visit some of the sites not out of macabre interest but to remind me just how fragile peace can be. Assuming things haven’t kicked off again in post-pandemic melt-downs.

Still under curfew, I trawled disk drives yesterday and recovered a lot of ‘missing’ photos. Among them were some memories of a month in the Caspian. Ironically, my first memory was my return journey.

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Filed Under: Fake Memoir, ManRom2021 Tagged With: aktau, albert einstein, baku, book festivals, booklink, chernobyl, dalkey book festival, geophysics, insurance, jostein gaardner, kazakhstan, pj o'rourke, russia, seismic, somme, sturgeon, walking, ww1

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