Water Lilies
Been doing some Water Lilies related stuff while Brian is attending the TED talks. The film comes out from the 14th of March in the UK. It’s a brilliant film and is getting great reviews from everywhere.
TED
I am at TED with Brian now. We arrived in Monterey yesterday, registered, had a walk, then went to the TED Speakers’ Welcome Party. As you can imagine, we met all kinds of interesting people – scientists, entrepreneurs, artists. We *didn’t* speak to Al Gore, Robin Williams, Cameron Diaz or Meg Ryan – but I [...]
Sunday Times Wired
There’s an article about Brian in today’s Sunday Times. We read it about an hour ago when we woke up here in San Francisco, I said, “It makes it sound like all you do is eat, drink wine and talk about physics.” There was a pause where he just looked at me and I realised [...]
San Fran
Well, we’re having an odd day. I needed to call my bank twice to get my bank card working… but it’s working now so that’s all good. Macy’s department store was having a big sale and with the dollar so weak and the visitors’ card which gives 11% off, I got quite a lot of [...]
In SF
I’m in bed in San Francisco, awake, 5am, crazy jetlag, Brian’s asleep next to me. I’m on my Nokia n810 so I don’t disturb him. I can’t type very quickly which is slightly crap. My bank froze my card, clearly they thought a purchase in the UK, followed by one in Germany, followed by an [...]
Robots In San Francisco
First off, thanks to everyone at Walking With Robots for such a brilliant 3 days. You guys rule! Also, thanks to all of you blog friends for visiting the Walking with Robots blog and saying ‘hi’. We all really appreciated it. A super, special thanks to Jonathan Sanderson for asking me along. Nice to finally [...]
Walking With Robots
Jonathan Sanderson and I are in Bristol working for Walking With Robots running a New Media workshop. Please visit the blog and make comments, ask questions. If you want to know more about the workshop or a particular story, ask… We are (hopefully) teaching roboticists and AI researchers how to use the web and the [...]
Sensible Environmentalism
I’m watching at least one TED talk a day as Brian and I are off to TED at the end of next week (he’s talking :). I saw an interesting one this morning by Amory Lovins. It’s about weaning the US off oil by 2040, yet he talks about building more cars, not less and [...]
End Of The World As We Know It
I want to explain why I think many proponents of Global Warming are ‘fundamentalist’ in their beliefs and behaviour. This is prompted by my previous post and the conversation with Christian X Burnham in the comments.
I started recycling before it was fashionable. I used to walk carrying bags filled with glass, paper and cans to the nearest recycling containers. Then I used to ride my bike with all the recycling. I did this for well over 10 years before my council started home collections.
Science Valentines
Scientists in love. I just read Phil Plait’s I Cardiovascular You post and he linked to Ironic Sans’ Scientist Valentines post. They inspired me to do my own! Go on, you do one now!
People Believe Weird Things
I’m watching loads of TED Talks as Brian and I are off to TED in a few weeks (look at Friday’s speakers *ahem*). There’s just so very many excellent talks… I saw this one this morning and thought at least a few people here would be interested in it.
