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Temperature alignments
As we start another heat wave here in the UK, the talk about temperatures increases. One topic I find constant, especially in conversation with American friends, is understanding what various temperature measurements mean. For example, what’s 30 degrees Celsius in Fahrenheit? (The answer is 30°C = 86°F.) The questions are repetitious as they comes up […]
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#Brexit: A story in five parts
Everyone has an opinion about Brexit. About the good. The bad. And the ugly. The chaos at the port of Dover this weekend – along with everything else related to transport: queues and baggage-handling nightmares at airports, train strikes over staff pay and benefits – are being put in the Brexit frame too. If I […]
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Topics for FIR 270
My topics for discussion with Shel in For Immediate Release 270, our monthly long-form podcast episode for July 2022, published on July 18, 2022: The Uber Files The Uber Files are a leaked database of Uber’s activities in about 40 countries that reveals how Uber stormed into markets around the world, and how it used stealth technology and […]
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The enduring influence of Paul McCartney
A few days ago I met up with some good friends for lunch at a terrific pub outside Dorking. It was a pleasant 90-minute drive on a warm and sunny day from Newbury via Guildford and through the Surrey Hills. To make the journey even more pleasant and very relaxing, I listened to the Spotify […]
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Topics for FIR 263
My topics for discussion with Shel in For Immediate Release 263, our monthly long-form podcast episode for June 2022, published on June 20, 2022: Google has not created sentient AI — yet The suspension of a Google engineer called Blake Lemoine, who claimed a computer chatbot he was working on had become sentient and was […]