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Displaying posts filed as 'Science'

Wearing a helmet puts cyclists at risk 13Sep06

Filed under: Science, London, Random

Some research from Bath University suggests that wearing a helmet might be more dangerous than not. And that drivers gave women cyclists a wider berth when passing. Personally I’m not taking any chances cycling around London without a helmet but I am considering growing my hair and wearing a skirt, just to be on the safe side when cycling to work.

Wellcome to the future 18Apr05

Filed under: Science, London, Technology

Considering where I am working right now, I haven’t seen enough of the local area during lunch breaks and so on. But when I do, I’m happy to have dragged myself away from the usual half hour of joy - slowly dribbling bits of sandwich between the keys. Walking in from a bright Spring afternoon, this place - with its perspex tables, neon lights, beeps, whirls and blips - was all a bit disorientating but then this is the future after all (and maybe that’s how I’ll feel at eighty years old). And what a future it is. I am going there more often. The Wellcome Wing at the Science Museum that is - not the future. Although you never know…