Peter Tallack

According to the Guardian, ‘Melinda said Bill spent weeks debating whether or not they should marry, and even made a list of pros and cons for marriage on a whiteboard.‘ Reminds me of someone: darwinproject.ac.uk/tags/about-dar…

@TimandraHarknes Great to see you got there in the end. Congrats! Sounds exciting. Looking forward to seeing how it turns out.

It’s official. For the next couple of years I will mostly be writing this book:

@eyemenakis How embarrassing. Unless he/she’s already really good

@petertallack She!

On the bus on my daily commute. No bus driver in the changeover on the way to Temple Meads. After a five minute wait driver arrives flustered and panting with numerous Primark bags!

@PeaseRoland I bet you’re only in it for the honey

I like to keep my bees busy

@PeaseRoland I think you’re being a little cryptic.

Is it a little ironic they're celebrating Alan Turing on a banknote just as electronic digital payments make printed currency a thing of the past?

@campbellclaret @snb19692 @DeutscheWelle Welche Deutsche Pocasts würdest du empfehlen, Alastair? Ich versuche die gleiche Strategie als du zu folgen, um Deutsch zu lernen.

Hey @snb19692 nice photo of you in this @DeutscheWelle piece ... for once I am making more noise than you (but more musically!) Thanks for all the work you are doing defending the right to peaceful protest that these liars and charlatans would take away dw.com/en/why-is-alas…

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@Thievesbook @drdwhitehouse @drspacejunk @howellspace A World Without ‘Whom’ by Emmy Favilla, a copyeditor at BuzzFeed, is stimulating and progressive and funny, too.

As I am always splitting infinitives, getting into fights with Oxford commas etc, I could do with some help, too - but any thoughts? #WritingCommunity @drdwhitehouse @drspacejunk @howellspace

@campbellclaret A sentiment I might have shared until I read this: scientificamerican.com/article/penis-…

I BET YOUR WILLY IS BIGGER THAN JOE’S TOO, BY A LOT. go away, child

@philipcball Taylor later turned into a sceptic, and published two papers in Nature arguing against the validity of the paranormal.

@philipcball I think Taylor had an influence on Dai Davies, who was then editor – Davies published papers on other controversial topics such as the Loch Ness monster, too.

@philipcball This was around the time when the physicist John G. Taylor fell for Geller and started to believe that paranormal phenomena were genuine.

@philipcball @KevinADavies @AdamRutherford Are you misdirecting us? We’re you the stooge?

James Randi RIP, the Great Randi. My quick James Randi story. I only met him once, and he told me this tale, which you could stop at almost any point and it would still be an amazing story. He said… 1/n

@KevinADavies @philipcball @AdamRutherford I miss those Maddox days, by the way.

@philipcball @AdamRutherford @petertallack I was gobsmacked — especially because until then I thought Maddox had lost his marbles.

@KevinADavies @philipcball @AdamRutherford There are literally hundreds of methods of doing such book tests but for me what made his stand out was the sheer simplicity and casualness of it.

@philipcball @PeaseRoland @ChemistryKit I’m enjoying this. Shall we write the rest of the book? I think it could be quite good.

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