Self-inflicted tobacco sanctions. (View Post)

Indeed we did. They were not necessarily out at sea all the time measuring sea temperatures to within a fraction of a degree. And the people that were measuring water temperatures - e.g. steamships v… (View Post)

Yes and no. The trend does indeed matter; but the trend can be obscured if the data is obtained by a different, more accurate method. That link's quite interesting for showing the way that buckets (i… (View Post)

I have some great photos of my son under the Earth at Ely Cathederal a few years back. I'm unsure what that had to do with the Christian message. Likewise, Chester Cathedral has, for the past few yea… (View Post)

We can take the 'generation' thing a bit too far. My dad's reaction to the 'summer of love': "I was too busy trying to make a living" I fear the stories of the swinging sixties are far more… (View Post)