James' Empty Blog

All this fawning over the pope leaves me rather depressed. So, maybe he happened to say something that was not completely stupid and backw...

awww, i'n't 'ee sweeet? In photos on the internets, James makes most things look smaller than they are, because he...

Englefield  seems to date from the mid 1500s, and Myohoji goes back to the 1200s. How much of which buildings may be "original" i...

So the Tim Hunt thing rumbles on and on... the story for anyone who missed it, is that an old entitled and successful Nobellist said some s...

I've been missing Starbucks Parking on Sundays . In fact I've been missing all the colourful, shiny, expensive and overpowered cars...

The hiatus is no more, apparently . Or rather, it never was. “ Nature Hiatus ” might have to change its name, or at least its main focus of...

Almost everything in our garden is doing flowering at the moment. It is the British way, to bloom in May and June and hibernate the rest of ...

jules: University College's boathouse , the balcony of which was where many of the photos from Part 1 were taken, looks like no other,...

Went down to Oxford to watch Eights - which is college bumps racing. This is how it works. In each division, a string of 12 boats is line...

As chief executive editor of a journal ( Geoscientific Model Development ), I've learned how the "impact factor" is calculate...