Google is a right pain in the April with this sort of search. the powers of 2 +1 and -1 are a bit of a short cut with prime identification. i wonder how many have been omitted using this shortcut. Are...
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-04545-z
I have no idea what this is about but it was Nature's top story. But i couldn't find it anywhere else so I was wondering if was even important?...
Another Manifesto pledge broken by the Tories . How many pensioners will vote Tory at the next G/E now that they have suspended the triple lock system on their state pensions. Typical Tory Trick The...
In light of everything that’s happening, how much longer will the Parliamentary Party tolerate her? https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-63251965 From that link: A government that has barely begun...
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2022/sep/01/historic-james-webb-images-show-exoplanet-unprecedented-detail Something I can understand! It's amazing what modern science can achieve, a picture of a...
As a relative newcomer I am often thrown by abbreviations in wordplay. For example in recent puzzles 80 became 'r' and Libya became 'lar'. Do I need to buy Chambers? In a recent puzzle an answer was...
How long in time (not distance) does it take a river like the Severn to flow from its source to the sea? Of course, this is impossible to answer: some molecules will travel faster than others; some...
Went to see the latest James Bond film yesterday. Was not at all impressed by the story line and it was a long watch. However having watched the Bond films since Dr No back in my teenage years with...
Relatively simple and smut-free for this setter but cannot parse 24a Reject overpaid playboys after vacation abroad (10) -I-A-P-O-E Must be disapprove. Can see anag of overpaid but the rest of it? TIA
When anti-vaxxer rallies begin to look like
The Nuremberg Rally, should we be concerned:
https://twitter.com/marclister3k/status/1418907451190038533?s=21
If not, why not?...
If I construct a tetrahedron with a magnet at the centre of each face (i.e. all norths out) and put it inside a cube with a magnet at the centre of each face (All norths in) and place that in the...
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-56718036 ...OK the IT system was a shilo pit and got it wrong but surely all you do is run all the transactions outside the system and demonstrate the arithmetic is...
If I understand Steven Hawking, the Big Bang created positive energy (including mass) and an equal amount of negative energy, which resides in space. Can space disappear? For example, can a Black Hole...