Might just be lawyers' lack of confidence in statistics - and not being sure they could win the arguments: you know the old rule, never introduce any topic you don't know the answer to. Rem… (View Post)

TBF to Nigelb, viruses (and bacteria) like that have existed, will exist and for all I know are lurking right now in the undergrowth (some literally so). No need for BEMs. Pneumonic plague would seem… (View Post)

Famous to anyone with an interest in geology and scenery! https://www.geolsoc.org.uk/Geoscientist/Archive/January-2007/Peach-and-Horne-the-memoir-at-100 (View Post)

Many, many years ago, as a student I was sent with the lab tech and the van to collect some stuff on an overnighter. When we'd got to the hotel and dumped our bags, he insisted on going to one o… (View Post)

Eh? A colleague and I used to call in regularly on the one on the Fosse Way somewhere in the Cotdswolds when heading down to Somerset etc. for work/cider/Yeovilton air show. It was great! (View Post)