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An early start today to see the eclipse and take some pictures with the aid of some polarises sunglasses! Click here to see the pictures. To do this, take any two pairs of sunglasses, duct tape them together at 90 degrees to exclude nearly all light (each lens excludes light in on polarising direction, theContinue reading “Solar Eclipse in Cervinia”

I had some respect left for the now retired David Millar, after his unusually frank and open statements following his drug ban, but here is his lame excuse for not testifying to the UCI’s CIRC drug commission, while finding the time to write a page long newspaper article in response to it for the DailyContinue reading “The UCI CIRC report”

After my ride yesterday with Gavin Blackburn, and looking at the Strava version of the parameters of that ride: I noticed a suggestion in my Strava feed to “Mix Up Your Training” and improve segment performance through their training plans. Clicking on the suggestion leads to this Strava blog page: Cycling Workout of the WeekContinue reading “Strava and athlete training plans”

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There has recently been a lot of speculation and unsupported assertions about gravitational waves, cosmic inflation and multiverses (e.g. http://www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/january-2015/cosmic-inflation-remains-undiscovered). Then this book “Farewell to Reality” by Jim Baggott turned up! I guess I’ll read the book before commenting in detail, but this review seems interesting, and would suggest my cynicism about the presentation ofContinue reading “Popular science isn’t so scientific”

Once again Strava has failed to upload to FaceBook (although it should), and Tacx on the iPad won’t upload at all (it’s not designed to). So here are my screenshots of the second, very hilly half of the Tacx Mallorca Ironman course, from Pollensa, up the mountains and down the other side. Max 9% bothContinue reading “Mallorcan suffering!”

I’ve been working hard to keep miles up to at least 100 miles per week, preferably 150. Here are some of my recent rides.. [pageview url=’https://www.strava.com/athletes/5475438/latest-rides/3856ce49d7e42ddc1412148d12c1afc1a02d6c83′ height=’454′ width=’300′]

Further to my comments on the moon / Jupiter conjunction a couple of days ago here is more on Jupiter and its larger moons, complete with images from the Hubble telescope that just slightly improve on my own Lumix TZ60 pics. May be time to break out the reflecting telescope! http://www.sciencespacerobots.com/hubble-captures-jupiter-t…

Jupiter in conjunction, as they say, with the moon on February 3rd, in a totally clear sky here in Scotland! Not great pictures by handheld camera, but just to draw attention to the show in the sky! One picture showing how close an angle they are at in the sky (although separated by hundreds ofContinue reading “Thoughts on Jupiter’s conjunction with the Moon”