As much for my own entertainment as anything, this is a list of all posts from newest to oldest, delineated by year.
2012
- Review of the year: 2012
- Book review: The Sleepwalkers: A History of Man’s Changing Vision of the Universe by Arthur Koestler
- By Jupiter!
- Book Review: Alan Turing: The Enigma by Andrew Hodges
- The Milky Way
- Harlech
- GCSE results through the ages
- Expertise in the House of Lords
- Sharepoint–how do I hate thee?
- Why I’m a liberal, and Giles Fraser isn’t
- The Peevish Olympic Spectator
- Lords Reform – aftermath
- My letter to Sir David Attenborough…
- Plastic Pots…
- Book review: A computer called LEO by Georgina Ferry
- Book Review: The Geek Manifesto by Mark Henderson
- Book Review: Huygens–The Man Behind the Principle by C.D. Andriesse
- Beeston Castle
- Book Review: Visualize This by Nathan Yau
- Book Review: The History of Clocks & Watches by Eric Bruton
- The sky at night!
- Book review: Measure of the Earth by Larrie D. Ferreiro
- First light–images of the sun
- Celestron NexStar 5Se – a 125mm reflecting telescope
- Revisions to UK GDP data
- Doppelgänger…
- Book Review: Stargazers by Fred Watson
- Bad polling
- Board of Longitude
- Book Review: Adapt by Tim Harford
- Book Review: The Great Arc by John Keay
- Book Review: Decoding the Heavens by Jo Marchant
- Book Review: The Etymologicon by Mark Forsyth
- I am Dr Faustus
- Childcare for scientists
- Bad at games
- Arrival…
- Chester Cathedral
- More on blogging…
- Strike 2!
- “Nick Clegg plans more employee ownership”
- Freedom!
- “French-maid Breast Implants”
- Book Review: The First American by H.W. Brands
2011
- Review of the year: 2011
- ‘Planned 49% limit’ for NHS private patients in England
- Calendar 2012
- The Peevish Physicist
- The Eurozone
- Strike!
- Case-sensitive
- House of Lords register of members interests
- On charity…
- Book Review: The Illustrated Pepys edited by Robert Latham
- Let he who is without sin cast the first stone…
- Going Home
- Book review: Edmond Halley Charting the Heavens and the Seas by Alan Cook
- Science is Vital – careers edition
- It’s probably a boy!
- Ada Lovelace Day
- British Wars–presented in fancy Javascript timeline format
- “Too much, too young”
- Book review: Ingenious Pursuits by Lisa Jardine
- Photographing Chester
- Get Organised!
- Don’t call me scum*
- Medical ultrasound imaging
- Book review: The Lunar Men by Jenny Uglow
- Friday rant
- Photovoltaic solar power – one year on
- Living in code
- The British sport of bashing the bankers
- The Sandstone Trail
- Surprise!
- University is not the universe
- Book Review: “Erasmus Darwin: A life of Unequalled Achievement” by Desmond King-Hele
- Still love the NHS?
- Book review: “The Orange Book: Reclaiming Liberalism”
- Book review: “At Home: A short history of Private Life” by Bill Bryson
- Lead mining in the Yorkshire Dales
- Reeth
- Book review: “In defence of History” by R.J. Evans
- The Two Cultures
- Computational Photography
- Book review: Map of a Nation
- Universities and knowledge
- The Weekly Rage
- “Ridiculously long vacations”?
- Book Review: The Visual Display of Quantitative Information
- Choosing to die
- How do I setup my own website?
- The New College of the Humanities
- House of Lords Reform
- The House of Lords by numbers
- More news from the shed…
- “Progressive Alliance”
- Post-election Reflection 2011
- Lavoisier: Chemist, Biologist, Economist
- The naming of things
- L’Académie des Sciences
- The elephant in the room
- Self-interest and electoral perversions
- Yes to AV!
- Book Review: The Chemist Who Lost His Head
- Obsession
- Book review: The Measure of All Things
- Book review: The Ascent of Money
- Inordinately fond of bottles…
- Book review: Doomsday Men by P.D. Smith
- Far, far away
- An Ethical Foreign Policy
- Photographs, videos and GPS
- Book Review: For all the tea in China
- Book review: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
- Hinterglemm
- Book review: Lives of the Engineers
- Deficit reduction through growth
- Which country is the UK like economically?
- Book Review: The Third Man by Peter Mandelson
- An electoral thought experiment
- No Merger!
2010
- Book review: Mutants
- Review of the year: 2010
- Book review: Isambard Kingdom Brunel
- Christmas Calendar 2010
- What’s on the end of the stick?
- Nevil Maskelyne and Maiden-pap
- 27 days to power in May
- This makes me angry
- Tuition Fees
- Book review: Trilobites!
- Kindle-ing
- A little bit of politics
- First Life
- A diversion in my life
- Poor attendance record in the House of Lords?
- A Coalition candidate for Oldham East and Saddleworth?
- Why the other ways don’t work
- Book review: The Scientific Revolution and the Origins of Modern Science
- Yields from income tax
- Questions for undergraduates… cabinet edition
- Fun with fluids!
- Book review: God’s Philosophers
- Early reports of the Royal Society
- Children and numbers
- Book review: The History of the Royal Society of London by Thomas Sprat
- Regulation and reward
- Book review: The Map that Changed the World
- Wallpaper paste and the giant death ray
- Science is Vital – history repeating 1667
- Book Review: The Fellowship
- God and the scientist
- Sunlight
- More colours than the rainbow
- “Intimidating equations”
- 100 days later: A Lib Dem view
- Journalists unable to cope with the conditional?
- A piece of land
- An Englishman’s Home is his Castle
- Bamboo Pen and Touch
- A set of blog posts on SQL
- Some notes on SQL: 7 – Subqueries, combining selections and views
- Spider silk
- Some notes on SQL: 6 – Multi-table operations
- The Periodic Table
- Some notes on SQL: 5 – database design
- On choice
- Some notes on SQL: 4 – Advanced select
- How does a magnet work?
- The Lake District – Santon Bridge
- A brief return to politics – the Budget
- Some notes on SQL: 3 – changing a table
- Book review: Botany of Desire
- Some notes on SQL: 2 – Basic SELECT
- Some notes on SQL: 1 – creation
- A sceptical look at the economy
- Compare and contrast
- That’s nice, dear
- Book review: The World of Gerard Mercator
- Understanding mayonnaise
- Go back to your constituencies and prepare for government!
- May you live in interesting times…
- I was up for Evan Harris
- No sleep ’til Batley!
- Economics: The physics of money?
- Opinion polls and experimental errors
- Occupations of MPs
- Book review: Joseph Banks by Patrick O’Brian
- Lasers go oooooommmmmmm
- Why I’m voting Liberal Democrat
- Experiments for obsessive compulsives
- Caerwys – a breezy spring walk
- A brief history of gadgets
- Bug-eyed monsters from the planet Tharg
- Bashing the bishops
- Seeing Further: A Blaggers Guide (Part 1)
- Seeing Further: A Blagger’s Guide (Part 2)
- The Green Scientist
- On being a fellow of Pembroke college
- The Presidents of the Royal Society (reprise)
- The Royal Society and the data monkey
- And the winner is…
- A letter to the Institute of Physics
- The Age of Wonder: A book review
- The Misanthrope
- Westendorf
- Publication, publication, publication
- Why is that butterfly blue?
- Mother, do you think they’ll drop the Bomb?
- Caverns measureless to man
- We are the angry mob
- Follow Friday – a post for twitterers…
- Making Science and Engineering a Policy Issue
- The science of Shrek
- SomeBeans’ feeling for snow
2009
- Happy New Year!
- What kind of scientist am I? (audio version)
- A walk along the Shropshire Union Canal
- Grant Applications II
- What kind of scientist am I?
- Happy Christmas
- The Professionals
- Drowning by numbers
- Wordless Wednesday
- A jigsaw not a House of Cards
- Confocal microscopy
- There may be blue skies ahead
- Wordless Wednesday
- A short story about scientific impact
- Wonderful Life
- Wordless Wednesday
- Not Waving but Drowning
- Wordless Wednesday
- The past is a foreign country
- Wordless Wednesday
- Pretty molecular models
- Wordless Wednesday
- Bryn Alyn – an autumn walk
- Professor Nutt and the classification of harm through the misuse of drugs
- Who Dr.?
- Wordless Wednesday
- Talkin’ about my generation
- Wordless Wednesday
- Twitter, rumours and physics
- Confessions of a Twitter addict
- Wordless Wednesday
- Superconductivity
- Wordless Wednesday
- Schrodinger’s flippin’ cat!
- An introduction to the big and shiny
- The Mock Magnetic Resonance Imaging Machine
- The Dorothy Hopkinson Memorial Solar Panel
- 57 varieties
- The Scientist
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