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Rescuing basil and tarragon by warming, cooling

October 28, 2008

I am very cold tonight. And this isn’t just the usual me complaining about the guy in the office who keeps the air conditioning on too cold either (he wasn’t in today). This is really cold.
The greenhouse seems to have helped some of the plants, particularly the parsley which looks quite lively. I’m not sure [...]

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We’re not in Kansas any more, Toto

October 20, 2008

Despite many years of physics education, I feel beaten by two principles of the physical world: (i) the higher the centre of gravity of an object, the easier something will fall over and (ii) a force is proportional to the area to which it is applied. Last Saturday night (possibly Sunday morning, it was a [...]

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