If you thought the last honk for Pluto was to be heard in the Illinois Senate, you’d be wrong. From the Professor comes news of the perfect Christmas gift for your inner space geek. MSNBC’s Cosmic Log’s Alan Boyle’s The Case for Pluto: How a Little Planet Made a Big Difference. Available at all good book stores. Samizdata’s Dale Amon was at the launch. Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell sent her apologies.. Just don’t mention plutoids..
Fair play to Iain, he managed to get over 2,200 people voting in his poll for the top Northern Irish blogs this year… We (just, I imagine) retained our top spot, with Splintered coming straight in at number 2, no doubt his pet subject du jour will have garnered him a lot of fans… I’ve [...] read our review »
World by Storm has a nice piece up on the IRA’s role in helping MK, the armed wing of the ANC, in the 1980s. In particular he sees a strange alchemy at work there: …if one can think of a clearly legitimate contemporary struggle it was that against apartheid and it is to the credit [...] read our review »
Somehow I escaped reading this essential school text, with its story of racism in 1930s American South. Living in Northern Ireland, I draw parallels with sectarianism, with its similar bigotry and prejudice. To Kill a Mockingbird was part of a Unite Against Hate campaign event at Parliament Buildings in Northern Ireland, which I’ve written [...] read our review »
You geeks know nothing, still learning ABC’s
From the review: Pluto….underdog.
Don’t tell Disney.