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I have nothing to add, except to reiterate my contempt for the government and bewilderment at the 23% of the electorate that actually voted for these vicious people.

Review: Inequality by James K. Galbraith

Inequality

What Everyone Needs to Know®

by James K. Galbraith

Published By: Oxford University Press

Publication Date: 1st April 2016

Edition: Paperback

ISBN: 9780190250478

Price: £10.99

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Uprooted

On the Trail of the Green Man

by Nina Lyon

Published by: Faber and Faber Ltd.

Publication date: 3rd March 2016

Format: Paperback

ISBN: 9780571318018

Price: £15.99

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Review: ‘A World From Dust’ by Ben McFarland

A World From Dust

How the Periodic Table Shaped Life

by Ben McFarland

Published by: Oxford University Press

Publication Date: 1st June 2016

Edition: Hardcover

ISBN: 9780190275013

Price: £22.99

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Since I’m writing about science at the minute it might seem like a good idea to write about the LIGO discovery earlier this week of gravitational waves, the final prediction of Einstein’s 1916 Theory of General Relativity to be confirmed. This could be tricky, I only have a glancing understanding of relativity, I’ll have a go though.

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The niece wanted to know

How glow sticks work. It’s quite handy that I happened to write my dissertation, way back in 2003, on the subject of luminescence since that’s what we’re talking about. Unfortunately, I can’t find my dissertation or my OHP slides – yes we were still using overhead projectors at Durham University in the early 2000’s – so I’ve actually had to look things up, mostly Jablonski diagrams. I had a really good one that I used for my dissertation, but like I said, I can’t find them.

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