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Screensavers and Proteins Part 1

February 19, 2021 by Simon Robinson Leave a Comment

I can type because there are proteins that help me do it. The proteins in question enable my muscles to contract and slide over one another among other mundane tasks. They do the same for you and all of our proteins deserve enormous respect. And despite enormous research efforts, we don’t yet know enough about proteins.

Dun Laoghaire Winter 20091228 © Simon Robinson
Canon 450D | Canon 55-250 F4-5.6 IS | 194 mm | 1/15s | f/5.6 | ISO 400 | handheld
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Filed Under: Fake Memoir Tagged With: CERN, computing, Covid-19, moore's law, photos, vijay pande

Life Long Suffering

January 25, 2021 by Simon Robinson Leave a Comment

I recently mentioned being stopped by the police on Baggot Street in Dublin. It’s happened again.

Repurposed old iron nails and life long suffering, themes that complement each other.
Transport by Antony Gormley in Canterbury Cathedral.
Repurposed old iron nails from the repaired roof.
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Filed Under: Fake Memoir Tagged With: antony gormley, bloody sunday, camera, Covid-19, ira, photography

Cautionary Approaches

January 24, 2021 by Simon Robinson Leave a Comment

One of my school teachers used to tell a cautionary tale about a pedestrian who was killed when caught on a road at the bottom of a hill. He’d stepped between the lights of two oncoming bicycles. We were twelve or thirteen years old and not everyone in the class understood the silly joke.

today … looks like I feel when my brain hurts … a permanent network of confusion illuminated by a temporary coat of conviction … or just winter snow …
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Filed Under: Anchoritism Tagged With: Covid-19, financial times, pandemic, photo, tim harford, vaccination

Sakharov Prize

December 15, 2020 by Simon Robinson Leave a Comment

The European Parliament has announced that the 2020 Sakharov Prize is going to the Belarusian  opposition Coordination Council, a predominantly female group who are holding out for dignity and democracy. It’s surely a mark of the 26 year reign of the podpolkovnik‎ (supreme commander) Alexander Lukashenko that this is the third time the prize has made its way to the troubled Belarus.

Persistent bloom despite the winter (this date 2008).
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Filed Under: Anchoritism Tagged With: alexander lukashenko, belarus, buenos aires, Covid-19, donald trump, european parliament, mortality rates, nature, pandemic, photo, sakharov prize

Happier Times

November 29, 2020 by Simon Robinson Leave a Comment

‘No more distressing moment can ever face a British government than that which requires it to come to a hard and fast and specific decision.’
– Barbara W Tuchman in The Guns of August (1962)

We walked among protestors while we lived in Westminster.
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Filed Under: Anchoritism, Fake Memoir Tagged With: barbara w tuchman, booklink, brexit, Covid-19, hilaire belloc

Rational Cooperation

August 28, 2020 by Simon Robinson Leave a Comment

I want to be considered a rationalist but I find it very hard to defeat the hormones that often provoke me to irrational responses. I don’t want to be accused of being an alarmist but there really are some cataclysmic things we should worry about.

I walked the perimeter of Manhattan in twelve hours this day twelve years ago!
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Filed Under: Anchoritism, Fake Memoir Tagged With: carrington event, climate justice, Covid-19, eugene parker, mars, pandemic, photos, public health, richard dawkins, solar wind, tsunami, walking

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