Greedy
It is not worth desiring a professorship rather than love and happiness and a long and healthy life. But all four would certainly be nice.
science
A man who is bored with the Universe
I think I’m running out of things to learn. Or perhaps just the desire to do so
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Players
Appearing on a stage in a school play is a rehearsal for all the stages we will occupy as we act our way through life
No room in the neurones
He who is tired of learning has been doing it for seventy three years and needs to rest
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Values
Once upon a time the products of high technology – pottery, swords, carriages, furniture, bicycles, wireless sets – were valued and treasured; kept in good repair for many years, decades, passed on from generation to generation. Now mobile phones, ipads, tv sets, video games, cars, houses even, end up in landfill after months, days, hours
11/11/1918
Just think what all those dead young men could have done in the years after 1918. Think of the advances in Art, Literature, Music, Science. Think of the leaders who might have steered their countries into a better new age. And think of the potential of their descendants, never born. Because politicians, and Generals, thought
But not forgotten
Searching for your old teachers on the internet, brings to life partial histories of long forgotten teaching careers that once were of great importance to them and their families. Now just digitised fragments of dusty archives, but evoking memories of people who once changed your life and set it on its seventy year course.
Baton passing
Students I once thought of as the younger generation are now all professors. Unlike me.
Hierarchy
If you don’t get qualifications when you are young you will find yourself working for idiots. If you do get qualifications you will find yourself working for more highly paid idiots.
A visitor from outside science
I see the Daily Mail has picked up the story that “Oumuamua”, the “visiting” rock whose origins lay outside our solar system, might be an alien artefact with a light sail, say a couple of scientists. This kind of “science” is science fake news, tabloid science. Bad enough when it is based on poor reporting
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