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Celebrate Minor Mundanity

December 29, 2020 by Simon Robinson 1 Comment

‘What are you, a sorcerer? / Only at home. In company I drink out of the cup.’
– Take it from Here, BBC radio comedy with Frank Muir and Dennis Norden

Kitchen cleaning tools before the calamity.
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Filed Under: Fake Memoir Tagged With: bbc, booklink, fitbit, photography, technology, vet

New Saliva and Prostate Facts

December 19, 2020 by Simon Robinson Leave a Comment

We all know that facts taken out of context can be misleading, that spurious correlations can be misdirecting. There’s even a website (and a book) that specialises in spurious correlations. One of my favourites is the 80% correlation between the letters in the winning words of a spelling bee and deaths from spider venom. Ah, the joys of unmoderated, unrefereed information.

Beautiful Light this morning. Industrial Dublin port as seen from Dun Laoghaire Pier.
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Filed Under: Fake Memoir Tagged With: bbc, cancer, inside science, photos, prostate, science, skene's glands, spurious correlations, the week, usa today

Sharpness and Wavelets

October 24, 2020 by Simon Robinson Leave a Comment

I’ve used metaphors throughout my life to illustrate how things work. I’ve come to realise that may be because the use of the metaphor helps me understand why we do the things we do. As Simon Sinek said ‘People don’t buy what you do, they buy why you do it.’

Air bubbles break the surface from a seismic airgun array. It was a miserable, sleepless few days because the surface was flat calm over very shallow waters in the northern Caspian sea. The airguns fired six or seven times every minute and everything on the boat rattled each time.
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Filed Under: Fake Memoir Tagged With: bbc, caspian, computing, david attenborough, geophysics, orca basin, photo, travel

Stylish Violence

September 21, 2020 by Simon Robinson Leave a Comment

The period after the Great War was, for Europe at least, a time of great insecurity. Governments and gangsters both struggled to maintain order.

I zoomed as I shot the women.
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Filed Under: Anchoritism Tagged With: bbc, inequality, photos, tv

Bird Migration

August 15, 2020 by Simon Robinson 4 Comments

Jetting from London to Houston, with noise cancelling headphones isolating me from both a snoring neighbour and the rumble of our propulsion, I imagined a Bantu throwing a spear at a stork. I also wondered what it was like in 1822 when no one could imagine a White Stork making an annual round trip after breeding in Germany, going south of the equator in East Africa to avoid European winters. At that stage in our understanding, the ancient Greek idea that birds turned into fish for the winter was still popular.

Flamingoes over Lake Naivasha in Kenya 2005
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Filed Under: Fake Memoir Tagged With: bbc, birds, evolution, melvyn bragg, migration, photos, rspb, tim birkhead, travel

Imagined Futures

August 4, 2020 by Simon Robinson 3 Comments

This time next year, a week short of entering Rome on foot, I hope to be resting for a day in Viterbo, between Lakes Bolsena and Bracciano. Each of these lakes occupies the caldera of a dormant volcano and I will enjoy the sight of them.

‘So the first lesson about trusting your senses is: don’t. Just because you believe something to be true, just because you know it’s true, that doesn’t mean it is true.’ (from Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain by David Eagleman).

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Filed Under: Anchoritism, Fake Memoir, ManRom2021 Tagged With: bbc, dun laoghaire, fishing, hans rosling, imagination, photos, travel, walking

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