Netvouz / madelvic / tag / miscellany http://netvouz.com/madelvic/tag/miscellany?feed=rss&pg=1 madelvic's bookmarks tagged "miscellany" on Netvouz BBC Sounds https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds madelvic Thu, 11 Jul 2024 20:35:44 GMT Bookshop closing after more than a century in business https://theedinburghreporter.co.uk/2025/03/bookshop-closing-after-more-than-a-century-in-business/ McCall Barbour Christian Bookshop, George IV Bridge, closes April 2025. madelvic Mon, 17 Mar 2025 14:20:27 GMT CalMac ferry Glen Rosa delayed again by up to six months https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0ed5jr3130o Includes summary up to Dec. 2025. madelvic Fri, 19 Dec 2025 12:26:25 GMT CERN boffins turn lead into gold for about a microsecond at unimaginable cost https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/12/cern_lead_into_gold/ "So alchemists had the right idea – they just lacked a 27 km particle accelerator." madelvic Tue, 13 May 2025 09:29:05 GMT Chasing Steel : Ian Jack on the CalMac scandal https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v44/n18/ian-jack/chasing-steel London Review of Books, September 2022 madelvic Thu, 24 Nov 2022 11:45:39 GMT Chemical elements which make up mobile phones placed on 'endangered list' https://news.st-andrews.ac.uk/archive/chemical-elements-which-make-up-mobile-phones-placed-on-endangered-list/ "Scientists from the University of St Andrews have developed a unique periodic table which highlights the scarcity of elements used in everyday devices such as smart phones and TVs." madelvic Tue, 22 Jan 2019 13:56:01 GMT Collapse of critical Atlantic current is no longer low-likelihood, study finds https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/aug/28/collapse-critical-atlantic-current-amoc-no-longer-low-likelihood-study "Scientists say ‘shocking’ discovery shows rapid cuts in carbon emissions are needed to avoid catastrophic fallout" madelvic Thu, 18 Dec 2025 19:35:20 GMT Come again? : A surprisingly simple test to check research papers for errors https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2016/06/16/come-again "The GRIM test, short for granularity-related inconsistency of means, is a simple way of checking whether the results of small studies of the sort beloved of psychologists (those with fewer than 100 participants) could be correct, even in principle." madelvic Fri, 22 Jul 2016 08:53:45 GMT Cult TV https://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/classic/ Includes pages about Clangers, The Prisoner, Q, Quatermass, and title sequences. madelvic Fri, 13 Jun 2008 13:19:19 GMT Data Thistle https://www.datathistle.com/ "...the UK's best set of live events data" madelvic Tue, 09 Jan 2024 11:30:25 GMT