On detection of a shadow or sudden darkening of the light environment, sessile fan worms (Sabellidae) and Christmas tree worms (Serpulidae) rapidly withdraw their conspicuous outstretched radiolar tentacles inside their secreted tube (Nilsson1994). Their cerebral eyes are hidden inside the tube and ...
There's more about how scientists make computer models of the climate in a great BBC news articleModels 'key to climate forecasts'by Dr Vicky Pope of the UK's Hadley Centre. If you want to go one better, go toClimateprediction.netto run your own mini model of the climate. Using your c...
I have already loaded this year’s ISA, allocating 10k to VUSA and about 10k to various UK investment trusts and increasing some of my worst performing holdings mainly renewables ITs that got hit by the increasing cost of capital. That’s Taleb’s barbell approach – invest in gangbusters an...
expensive and universal for any powder-based starting gun (without necessity to adapt starting gun). The proposed device, among others, has the following features: impulse duration can be controlled from hundreds of μs up to 2.3 s, the gain range of linear part of processing from 6 to 40 ...
There is a cogent argument that only rich bastards can fill their ISAs – for perspective it’s nearly two thirds of the average UK net household income. So it’s time to move things around between the ISA and the GIA. I have some things in the ISA for income, like some L&G shares...
[3,64,65,66]. However, some pathways are still not fully elucidated as mapping them requires decades of research and is often a complicated task. Pathways can be characterized by physicochemical studies monitoring the turnover and flux of isotope-labeled (stable or radioactive) compounds or ...
–TV license fee in the UK. –Car registration fees. If you’ve got time left to run on any contracts like the your phone or the gym, then do some research about the best ways to disentangle yourself from those situations. Don’t listen to what the sales guy tells you! There are of...
As Jonathan Sacks (the Chief Rabbi of the UK) put it on the same radio programme: He Chose Life. Now I always thought – and this was reinforced by the Glasgow office of Channel 4 which has the words engraved on the glass of the entrance – that “Choose Life” comes from FilmFour’...
than that to get a driver’s licence. That isn’t right. Many potential parents may not have what it takes to raise children with the care, affection and occasional tough love that is required. They need to prove they do. Why don’t “wannabe” parents need a child-raising licence?
(which could end as soon as 2027); with Channel 4 largely suspending commissioning; with Channel 5 equally under the cosh due to the TV advertising slump – that we really need to value and look after our broadcasters. By the time UK viewers realise what they’ve lost, it will be too ...