Dropbox goes photo social
Dropbox has unveiled two new products. The first offers users a document preview function but the second is more interesting for photographers. Dropbox already offers automatic camera uploads for iOS...
View ArticleBig data and the next big popstar
Big record companies have always crunched numbers to divine the next big acts – ultimately, every successful star is a cash cow for someone. The difference is, we now have a lot more numbers to look at...
View ArticleMusic makes you well
In the first large-scale review of 400 research papers in the neurochemistry of music, a team led by Prof. Daniel J. Levitin of McGill University’s Psychology Dept. has been able to show that playing...
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Sign of a chemist
A chemist’s sign in Hayfield, High Peak, Derbyshire. We recently visited High Peak, Derbyshire again and did lots of walking. I snapped this sign above an old chemist’s shop in Hayfield…although that...
View ArticlePeak music
Will we ever reach a peak? Like peak oil, where there will be an abundance and gradually it will run out. Could we use up all the musical black notes and start repeating ourselves musically? And I’m...
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Culling badgers on a Monday
There’s a call to cull badgers in the name of saving cattle from tuberculosis. The cull will lead to thousands of healthy badgers being slaughtered but there is evidence that such a cull will have an...
View ArticleThe other Albert Einstein, the violinist
Albert Einstein plays Mozart KV378 Sonata for Violin and Piano in B-flat? Probably an April Fool…although he did play violin, of course, just this recording probably ain’t him, he wasn’t apparently...
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Wing mirror blue tit
UPDATE: This little bird lands on our car every time we park up in the spot, same again today. Got a better shot with a proper camera, so I’ve updated this page. Just prior to walking our dog today,...
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Pale Blue Dot – a song
The Pale Blue Dot is a photograph of planet Earth taken in 1990 by NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft (launched 1977) when it reached 6 billion kilometres (3.7 billion miles) from Earth in 1990. In the...
View ArticleNo Freewill – a cover song
Freewill is a contentious issue. There are those who feel that it’s something innate to being human others see it as an illusion of how our consciousness is constructed by the electrobiochemistry of...
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