There is a fascinating video on the Nature website about the Antikythera Mechanism (link to Nature letter). Here’s another video on the topic.
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The Antikythera Mechanism
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There has been a revolution in supermarket checkouts over the past 12 months or so. Supermarkets are demonstrating a hitherto unprecedented level of trust in their customers by allowing them to check out their own shopping. This saves on wages and potentially saves the customer time.
There is a risk that some customers will take advantage [...]
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Tesco Language
Tesco is to change the wording of signs on its fast-track checkouts to avoid any linguistic dispute.
The supermarket giant is to replace its current “10 items or less” notices with signs saying “Up to 10 items”.
Tesco’s move follows uncertainty over whether the current notices should use “fewer” instead of “less”.
(source)
Whilst ‘10 items or fewer’ [...]
Olympics Parade
So, there’ll be a parade in London on the 16th October for the Beijing Olympians.
Nice of them to pick a thursday so that people from out of town who have to work in the week can’t come in, and people in London can only see the parade in their lunch hour.
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Wagon Wheels
We bought some Wagon Wheels yesterday, for the first time in years.
Both MrsMurk and I wondered “Didn’t they used to be bigger?” I find I’m not the only one who thinks this!
From Wikipedia:
There have been many debates amongst fans of the biscuit about the size. Wagon Wheels have supposedly shrunk in size as time has [...]