An inquiry into the causes and implementation of the Iraq warinvasion, covering the period 2001-2009, has opened today at the QE2 centre. Hyped as "the mother of all Iraq inquiries", The Iraq Inquiry , chaired by Sir John Chilcot (formerly a member of the Butler review), promises to be "thorough" and "won't be a white wash". The hearing will not, as planned originally, be held entirely in ...
Британский учёный первым в истории скомпилировал в социальной сети Twitter полноценный музыкальный альбом. Напомним, что на этом сервисе можно разместить только 140 знаков текста за раз. Откуда взялась музыка? Дэн Стауэлл (Dan Stowell), композитор и аспирант Центра цифровой музыки колледжа Королевы Мэри в Университете Лондона , утверждает, что с помощью программистских уловок в одно ...
Collected taxicard on Monday and got sunburnt at a friend's barbecue. Saw new_kinda_freak in town yesterday (which was wonderful, but a bit disjointed as we didn't have a plan and ended up hanging around station bars) and then I was joined by a friend for several drinks until closing time (oops, sorry we were late back techiebloke ) - she seemed a bit hungover today. Moral of ...
It's a shame this week is nearly over. Although I did say I am getting into the swing of uni work, I haven't actually managed to go to any lecture at all. But having said that, I have been doing some ickly tiny pieces of work at home though. I'm having a great time. I went to uni yesterday to meet RoRoRoRomany after her work hours and we bang on some tunes. She let me play her oboe with my ...
Recent happenings in Rikk's world are getting warmer along with the season. I am slowly getting into working attitude again. YAY! Next few weeks will be coursework intensive and revisions should begin asap. Seeing there's only a couple of strides left til the end of uni, I may as well get with the jig, make the most of this geekery and concentrate like I have never concentrated before. My grades...
Hello LJ. I didn’t realise it’s been almost two weeks since my last post, although it felt as though it’s been a month. You could say it’s been a year. Lol. In all actuality, it’s been a horrible end of year for me, with only some bright and interesting things happening. The amount of work I had to do was let’s just say beyond anything I’ve been given before. I’ve gotten ...
Hmmmm. I got this on my inbox today. :D
Dear Students
You may have already seen that our Department has just been rated as one
of the top five Geography departments in the UK in terms of research
activity, in the national Research Assessment Exercise.
This means that we are positioned alongside Oxford, Cambridge, Bristol
and Durham universities in terms of the quality of the research that...
Yay! Christmas Holidays is here! A quick recap on things: Quaternary (QP) essay, submitted on Monday, was really bad. We were told to write 3000 words on "the extent of synchronicity of different palaeoclimatic records". Poopy Argos didn't allow me to have one day off so I started the plowing through 10pm the night before the deadline. I only managed to write 1,200. Not even half. I'd be ...
Yttrium Metal used for superconductor alloys. Superconductors could be a very interesting choice for cathodes or coils as well. Basically, I think it is a very good idea to research the variouschemical excentricities and peculiarities of all the heavy metals, metals and non metals. Could something heavier than heavy water be synthesised with basic chemicals? perhaps even, some of the ...
I slept about 4 hours yesterday. The result: I am getting Cortisol tummy, and I know exactly why it's happening. When someone like me doesn't get enough sleep, their body goes into slow-stress mode, and their adrenal glands release adrenocorticoids (ie cortisol). In their maligned attempt to combat my stress, cortisol basically travels to my stomach area and gets all of my body cells to release ...
