Given that almost no active national-level polician has any meaningful training in science (even at an undergraduate level, but certaintly not as a research scientist), it’s remarkable how so much of policy is claimed to be ‘science based’.
Scientists are trained to …
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I had a pile of markdown stuff from my time as a councillor, which was turned into a website using the hpstr template for jekyll. TBH, I never really understood Jekyll, and I found hugo pretty difficult to use. I’ve been getting into Python more …
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Search for ‘Maillard Reaction’ — one of the most important reactions in cooking.
To learn more, read Harold McGee on Food and Cooking. Not a cookbook, but a book about cooking. This book is worth reading even if you don’t cook but only …
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The European Parliament voted to burden every blog like this with an obligation to anticipate any possible copyright breach, even to the point of using the title of a title elsewhere. To my mind politicians do not understand the Internet and instinctively do the wrong thing.
This is what the …
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I’ve been on Twitter for a long time. Since 2007. From a time before Stephen Fry discovered the medium, and many years before Donald Trump did so. I’ve mainly used it passively. I kept my account private, and followed only those authors …
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