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    "Does anything eat Wasps? and 101 other questions": from the New Scientist Last Word feature.
    When the fun stops, STOP.

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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.
      Done: off to Oxfam with it.

      Next: "Why don't penguins feet freeze?" another NS Last Word book.
      When the fun stops, STOP.

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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.
        Done: Off to Oxfam with it.

        Next: "How to Fossilise your hamster". NS again. This one's about experiments. .
        When the fun stops, STOP.

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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. .
          Not as inneresting as the previous two since it goes over much the same ground but experimentally, off to Oxfam with it.

          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.

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            Originally posted by DoctorStrangelove View Post
            Next: "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.
            Done: off to Oxfam with it.

            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.

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              Adrian Tchaikovsky - Children of Time trilogy. Not for arachnophobes.
              Down with racism. Long live miscegenation!

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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.
                Well? Does anything eat wasps?

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                  ^^^quite a lot of things apparently.

                  Originally posted by DoctorStrangelove View Post
                  Next: "Alan Turing: the Enigma Man" by Nigel Cawthorne. Brief & to the point unlike the other doorstop about him.
                  Done: off to Oxfam with it.

                  Next: "Britain's best kept secret: Ultra's base at Bletchley Park" by Ted Enever.

                  When the fun stops, STOP.

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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.
                    Done: off to Oxfam with it.

                    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.

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                      Originally posted by DoctorStrangelove View Post
                      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.
                      Done: off back to Oxfam* with it.

                      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.
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