The Star of Bethlehem

For what goes down at the local astronomy club, see the video here. And don't come complaining to me when you get no unicorns, dragons, or krakens.

The RI countdown to Christmas

Getting up with your DNA.

See? I'm not the only nerd with typewriter lust.

The world of typewriters 1714 - 2014. Typewriter porn for us ink addicts.

Celebrating Crystallography

100 years of crystallography. Catch up with it on the RI channel.

Feeding an interest in psychology

Listen to All in the Mind radio programmes on the list of BBC podcasts. Try, in the first instance, choosing the episode broadcast on Tue, 14 May 2012.

Then visit the second-hand bookshop and let's compose a shelf of psychology.

Memo to self: buy another bookcase. (Fortunately the walls round here seem to suck them up.)

Perpetual Ocean

If Van Gogh had drawn the seas as well as the stars, he might have created Perpetual Ocean.

Study skills

I am tripping over study skills these days. Chanting, singing, working with memory, setting aside time, attending a group, working alone, making notes, staring into space. Everything works. Or not. What works for you?

Cunning little vixen

Watch this introduction to the Opera. It's the Welsh National Opera production!

An interesting animation - Tiger, please watch!

Watch the animation first, then watch the short documentary about the artist, then watch the animation again.


So much work! So many people, in different arts. Do you think it is worth it? How well do you think the artist manages to convey human experience and emotion with simple pencil lines?




 Now the documentary.

 

Comet

Squirrel, start going outside when it's dark.

(Just don't stand on the street corner.)

Love, your mama. xx

Children and their bedrooms

A fascinating tour around the world, challenging common thinking about growing up, privacy, space, the organisation of a home, and the place a child calls 'my bedroom'.

Winter