Nik Nak’s Daily Teaser — 14th March, 2018.

14th March, 2018.

It’s true: a scientific icon has died.

Professor Stephen Hawking has died: this morning.

Which, as John Humphrys has just pointed out? Is extraordinary, in and of itself.   When he was diagnosed with Motor Neurone Disease back in the 1960s, he was given just two years to live.

The fact he then lived until today, doing valid scientific work?   Says a lot about a man who believed a hideous condition wasn’t going to stop him making contributions.

All the way from working out Hawking radiation — the radiation emitted by black holes — would show black holes exist, to writing A Brief History of Time, that explained arcane scientific ideas, all the way to the seriously silly stuff*.

Frankly?

The world’s lost an icon, today.

We’re richer for his time with us, baffled until he explained things …

And poorer for his death.

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The Daily Teaser — 14-3-2015

You know, I’m in a quandary.

Well, not a quandary, I’m just up, early.

Yes, it’s that time of the month.

The time of the month, when there’s a staff meeting at, work.

Which has me up at silly o’clock, frankly.

But my quandary?   Has nothing to do with it.

I’ve been thinking I’d like to finish off Robin Hobb’s Assassin’s Quest.

It’s a nice riveting story, the character’s are sympathetic, the plot’s jogging along to a climax.

But, of course, it’s a library book.   So I’ve only so long, to finish it, before I have to return it.

But, of course, I’d like to mark the death of Terry Pratchett, somehow: probably by reading the disc world series, again.

Oh, I’ve a copy of A Slip Of The Keyboard to dip in and out of.

Otherwise things would be serious.

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