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Monday, October 26, 2009

Analysing Formula 1

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It's well-known that the greatest number of Grand Prix winners in a single season is eleven, a number attained during the epic and tragi...
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Friday, October 23, 2009

Are racing cars arthropods?

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If a zoologist were forced to classify racing cars in biological terms, he might well be inclined to conclude that they match the body plan ...
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Wednesday, October 21, 2009

A champion's drive?

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Smoother than Roger Moore in his prime, and with the surgical precision of Professor Sid Watkins in-theatre, Jenson Button scythed through t...
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Friday, October 09, 2009

Maurice Hamilton meets Richard Dawkins

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Cows can be modified to grow vast and ungainly udders, and these continue to yield copious quantities of milk indefinitely, long after the n...
Wednesday, October 07, 2009

The Funeral Games Grand Prix

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Whilst the first Grand Prix motor race was held at Le Mans in 1906, the first de facto Grand Prix was actually the chariot race at the Fun...
Tuesday, October 06, 2009

Bobsleighs humped by lawnmowers

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Before his untimely death canonised him, Senna's realism was commonly called ruthlessness by everyone in the sport. To a certain extent ...
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Sunday, October 04, 2009

The radiation dose to Formula One

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Frequent business flyers, such as the team members and media representatives who fly to every Grand Prix in the Formula One World Championsh...
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Thursday, October 01, 2009

Dartington Hall

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Devon sometimes seems like a region of unfulfilled geography; it is en route landspace, a zone to be traversed by holidaymakers going to an...
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Friday, September 25, 2009

Night racing and Olbers's paradox

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It would be easy to think that the existence of night is solely a consequence of the rotation of the Earth and its location relative to the ...
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Tuesday, September 22, 2009

Singapore and interstellar gas clouds

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Sitting at a country pub on the banks of the canal, basking in the Sun beside a weeping willow, the barges chugging languorously past, Singa...
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Sunday, September 20, 2009

Branching and interfering parallel universes

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"This universe is constantly splitting into a stupendous number of branches, all resulting from the measurementlike interactions betwee...
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