That sucks.

Grand Colombia would like a word.

I trust you will be using this picture to explain vesicle elongation in thin sections? ⚒️🧪

I'm not sure it hates us more than elsewhere. But post2007/08 austerity and pandemic have offered political vehicles to systematically reduce funding. Current funding choices are the result of having "coped" for past decade but now most institutes have passed breaking point.

A New Zealand friend of mine called those kind of cliff slabs "gravestones" because if one fell on you (helmet or no) that is what it would be.

And it still sounds great. This was October 2025 at Newcastle City Hall. The Stranglers. 🖤 Golden Brown. 🧡🤎

👍. To add some objectivity to your original question Golden Brown reached No 2 in UK chart and won an Ivor Novello songwriting award. So it is pretty universally acknowledged as a very, very good song.

Saw them play it in its entirety on the Time Machine tour. Just brilliant.

Their attitude was raw, unadulterated punk. Their problem was their music (although not always their lyrics) was far too sophisticated for the punk movement that emerged. There is an argument to be made they are a very direct prog rock band.

A slightly balm for us Hibbies. Well done the Bairns!

... as is the work those assessors put into designing better evaluations of student ability, rather than just cramming them in a room at the end of the year to find out what has been memorised.

Nothing screams "our algorithm sucks" like large numbers of unexplained results.

I reread (for Nth time) recently. Brilliant writing.

Enjoy. Fantastic book.

Brilliant news for us Scotland fans because by the same logic we might not need to beat France and Germany at the World Cup. 😉

Phase diagrams are idealised systems. Like real rocks I think all scientist show a degree of disequilibrium.

Great book.