"Does anything eat Wasps? and 101 other questions": from the New Scientist Last Word feature.
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Originally posted by DoctorStrangelove View Post"Does anything eat Wasps? and 101 other questions": from the New Scientist Last Word feature.
Next: "Why don't penguins feet freeze?" another NS Last Word book.When the fun stops, STOP.Comment
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Originally posted by DoctorStrangelove View Post
Done: off to Oxfam with it.
Next: "Why don't penguins feet freeze?" another NS Last Word book.
Next: "How to Fossilise your hamster". NS again. This one's about experiments. .When the fun stops, STOP.Comment
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Originally posted by DoctorStrangelove View Post
Done: Off to Oxfam with it.
Next: "How to Fossilise your hamster". NS again. This one's about experiments. .
It wonders where Erasto Mpemba* is: as of now he's dust:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erasto_B._Mpemba
*Who he? The chap who found that hot water freezes quicker than cold water. Who'd have thunk?Last edited by DoctorStrangelove; Yesterday, 23:38.When the fun stops, STOP.Comment
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Originally posted by DoctorStrangelove View PostNext: "Trains and Buttered Toast" by John Betjeman. Appears to be a collection of radio talks. Looks like I started reading this yonks ago, then stopped, laying it down to mature nicely by accumulating a layer of dust.
Turns out it's a collection of wireless talks he gave between 1932 and the 1950s with 1975 thrown in for good measure. Mildly inneresting. Sad about him accidentally breaking his nanny's Xmas present.
Next: "Alan Turing: the Enigma Man" by Nigel Cawthorne. Brief & to the point unlike the other doorstop about him.Last edited by DoctorStrangelove; 26 September 2024, 17:58.When the fun stops, STOP.Comment
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Adrian Tchaikovsky - Children of Time trilogy. Not for arachnophobes.Down with racism. Long live miscegenation!Comment
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Originally posted by DoctorStrangelove View Post
Done: off to Oxfam with it.
Next: "Why don't penguins feet freeze?" another NS Last Word book.Comment
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^^^quite a lot of things apparently.
Originally posted by DoctorStrangelove View PostNext: "Alan Turing: the Enigma Man" by Nigel Cawthorne. Brief & to the point unlike the other doorstop about him.
Next: "Britain's best kept secret: Ultra's base at Bletchley Park" by Ted Enever.
When the fun stops, STOP.Comment
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Originally posted by DoctorStrangelove View Post^^^quite a lot of things apparently.
Done: off to Oxfam with it.
Next: "Britain's best kept secret: Ultra's base at Bletchley Park" by Ted Enever.
Next: "The lost worlds of 2001: the ultimate book of the ultimate trip "2001: a space odyssey"" by Arthur C. Clarke: bought last week, published 1972 by NEL in paperback which is now very delicate, on the verge of breaking the spine.
When the fun stops, STOP.Comment
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Originally posted by DoctorStrangelove View PostNext: "The lost worlds of 2001: the ultimate book of the ultimate trip "2001: a space odyssey"" by Arthur C. Clarke: bought last week, published 1972 by NEL in paperback which is now very delicate, on the verge of breaking the spine.
Next: "How Bletchley Park won WWII" by Michael Kerrigan.
*It was in the revolving book rack by the door on my last visit.Last edited by DoctorStrangelove; Yesterday, 23:40.When the fun stops, STOP.Comment
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