Blackpool, and why I am not likely to visit Pleasure Beach. This episode recorded ex post facto, because I lost track of time while riding the tram system — the only one in Britain to have been spared. From its northern terminus you can see the Heysham nuclear power stations. Also a “Museum of Water and Steam”, and Humphrey Davy and Isambard Kingdom Brunel, still two names to conjure with.
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SUYF: the other side – 4/26/26
ASFO 2026–04–25
Britain! The British Museum, and why I can’t get in even though it’s just outside my window… Also a report on my visit to Thurso, at the northern extremity of Britain ; and (continuing from last week’s Pannonian Ethanol) a brief thought about the perhaps–reasonable justifications for the use of biofuels, as opposed to the environmental ones, which are delusory.
SUYF: the other side – 4/19/26
“Have a great day!”
”Imitation of Life”
“Have a great day!”
ASFO 2026–04–18
Anything would be a let–down after last week. This show ended up being mostly about my upcoming travel plans in Britain, and some of the interesting industrial museums there, with a mention of something described as a “Luxury Dreadnought”. Also a discussion of the economics of the Eurail Pass, water damage on printed materials, the continuing policy failures of the Bundes Ministerium, and congratulations to the Japanese for getting one of the reactors at the Kashiwazaki–Kariwa power plant back in operation. If all of them were working, it would be the largest nuclear power site in the world, but that never has happened.
SUYF: the other side – 4/12/26
ASFO 2026–04–11
ARTEMIS II grabbed the imagination of the world, but left us with two thoughts. First, that we somehow have all this to do over again ; and second, it sets before us once more the stark choice of what to do with our scientific–technological mastery over the inanimate world.
SUYF: the other side – 4/5/26
ASFO 2026–04–04
ARTEMIS II — an opportunity to re–define the First of April, or a golden opportunity for conspiracy nuts? Also, wars and rumours of worse ; and a thought about “financialization” and why it poses a problem in the modern world.
