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Aug. 11, 2024

Cars, cautionary tales and Bridget Driscoll

Hello all - Happy Sunday! This week marks the 116th anniversary of the assembly of the first Ford Model T car in Detroit, Michigan, on 12 August 1908. The Model T was significant as the world’s first mass-produced vehicle. W…

June 30, 2024

Marie Curie and I are practically related

Hello all - Happy Sunday! This week, I read an article about the Marie Curie charity, which does great work in the UK running hospices, i.e. end-of-life care, across the country. But who was she? Marie Curie was born in Warsaw, P…

May 26, 2024

Rishi's Monster Raving Loony Party

Hello all - Happy Sunday! According to some estimates, up to 80 countries in the world are holding political elections this year. In other words, two billion of the world’s eight billion people will be eligible to head …

May 19, 2024

Extracting tacit knowledge one tale at a time

Hello all - Happy Sunday! A visit this week to Bletchley Park, Buckinghamshire, got me thinking about the concept of ‘tacit knowledge’. Bletchley Park is the home of the Bombe, the machine which helped to decipher…