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5 September 20255 September 2025

Because It’s Friday – Fight Club!

Fight Club is one of our son’s favourite movies so there was no way this article from The Conversation, by a number of academics, was not going to make the “Because it’s Friday” slot. Jane Austen fight club: experts go head-to-head arguing for her best leading man – The Conversation It is …

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6 September 20245 September 2024

Because It’s Friday – A Star Trek Story

I have two “Because It’s Friday” things for you today. The first is the continuing search for intelligent extra-terrestrial life: How gravitational waves could help detect Star Trek-style warp drive spaceships – The Conversation The second is from xkcd and is another maths joke. An occasional series I started because my son is …

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