You can fill in the gaps for those times of day when the tides are not moving by having more than one tidal station. A quick Google shows that when it is high tide in Swansea Bay, it is low tide in M… (View Post)

Surge capacity is very challenging (and very interesting. I often marvel at the challenges of getting people away from the Old Traffords after events, and how relatively successful Metrolink is at it… (View Post)

I don't think I have a principled view that assassination is wrong in and of itself. There are tyrants in the past whose assassination would have been welcomed. My issue with the sassytempt is t… (View Post)

Just had an in-law on the phone - a Cambridge educated lawyer, no less - sincerely lamenting that the shooter missed Trump. What does she think would have happened? MAGA types would have just gone &q… (View Post)

When Clinton handed over to GWB, Clinton's staff helpfully removed all the Ws from the keyboards in the White House. But that is civil servants, not politicians. (View Post)