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What Motivates Us At Work?

I’ve read research along these lines before but this is a really nice way of illustrating the findings relating to what motivates us to work.  The results surprise many but should be mandatory reading for anyone who [...]

Pictures from Calke Abbey

Another Piggy

Originally uploaded by drewkeavey

Calke Abbey in Derbyshire is a National Trust property that is unique in that far from being a place that has been renovated it has been restored back to the eccentric ramshackle creation of the former owners. A couple of elements stand out, pigs and stuffed birds. Lots of stuffed [...]

Cool Large Hadron Collider Photos

The Boston Globe has a piece on the restart of the Large Hadron Collider that has some fantastic photos including some of the damage done at the original startup.  The scale of this thing never ceases to amaze.

The article and the rest of the photos can be [...]

Colours Made Easy

For the non-arty one of the hardest things to do when putting together websites is to get just the right colours.  For the criminally untalented, like me, there are loads of free css templates but when using these there is always the desire to choose different colours that make the site stand out.  Even if we [...]

Interesting Font Comparator

I have to confess that I have an irrational hatred of the Arial typeface. I have no explanation for this, I just find it intensely annoying. It could be because for years it was the default in Microsoft Word and so a) it was one that was seen most often and b) it struck [...]

Pig Masterbation and 9 Other Orgasm Facts

Another TED talk.  This time by the excellent Mary Roach who discusses 10 Things You Didn’t Know About Orgasms following the release of her book Bonk: The Curious Coupling Of Sex and Science
. As always with Roach she has researched the topic with more depth than many actual researchers in the field.

Her previous books Stiff [...]

Interesting Video Projects

I was catching up on some TED talks* when I came across this one from Yann Arthus-Bertrand, a French photographer/filmaker and environmentalist, which included references to a couple of projects that he has worked on recently.

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Hardwick Hall Photos

Went over to Hardwick Hall, just off the M1 Jct 29 near Chesterfield. Have a few photos [...]