Autumn 2016: a new academic year, a new term, time for a new module! Well, not entirely new since half of it was largely based on a module I taught the previous couple of years (but with much of the detail removed to concentrate more on the ideas and applications), but still this was a module that I have been…
The Oxford Natural History Museum is a wonderful gem of a building (not least because of the amazing Pitt Rivers museum tucked away at the back, with every corner, shelf and drawer stuffed with antiquity) and amongst the dinosaur bones and dodos there’s often a temporary exhibition which at the moment is the outstanding photography of Levon Biss. It’s…
This week Uli Jon Roth embarked on a mini tour of England as part of a wider tour to promote his latest album, “Scorpions Revisited“, with an appearance at the Robin 2 in Bilston. Rather than a full blown review, I just wanted to share some photos I took on my phone that actually came out surprisingly well (mostly due to…
I have finally got around to changing the theme on this site, after a couple of years struggling to maintain a theme that I really liked, but was no longer, unfortunately, support by the author. The theme I have had in place for at least 6 years or so was the Mystique Theme from Digitalnature, for many years one of…
