Posted in Astronomy, Science on March 8, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Schrödinger’s Pig has this post on why things like Jodrell Bank matter. Really who in their right mind would aspire to be a successful physicist when that will cost you your job?
See also DaveP’s post on the subject and JQH is more depressing.
There is a petition for UK citizens to sign, but I suspect that [...]
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A series of written answers concerning the Portable Antiquities Scheme came out this week.
David Taylor (Labour) asked what redundancies are going to happen given that the finances were only going to ‘maintain the level of support’. The reply was that the Minister doesn’t know and it’s not the government’s problem.
Hwyel Williams (Plaid Cymru) asked how [...]
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I’m falling behind on my reading of RSS feeds, so the news that the Portable Antiquities Scheme has put some of its data on Swivel is new to me, even though the post is a week old. Swivel seems to be a graphing website. People upload data and then you can draw your own graphs [...]
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