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Temperatures in urban areas are higher than in nearby lowly populated locations because of the heat generated by man’s activities.
Temperature is measured in a Stephenson Screen, a slatted box of standard design at a standard height in surroundings that must fulfil certain requirements. Daily temperature is taken as the mean of maximum and minimum. [...]

I find the furore over the release of Al Megrahi incomprehensible. Whether the decision by Kenny MacAskill the Scottish Justice Secretary was the right one or not is irrelevant. Whether the decision pleased the British Government or annoyed the Americans, both Government and public, is similarly beside the point.
The Libyans made it clear repeatedly [...]

The visual arts – painting and sculpture – are the odd man out amongst the arts. In the visual arts each work is unique and essentially unreproduceable. But the thousandth copy of a book is no different from the first. A first edition may be collectable but that is another matter. Music must be performed [...]

Financiers and financial institutions – banks and the like – use mathematical models to guide them. I have mistrusted these on principle since they seem about as likely as perpetual motion. However, I assumed that they were so complex and so mathematically sophisticated that on the one hand the authors had ended by fooling themselves [...]

Some ten years ago I started to write about myself partly to have something to send to my son who aged 13 was spending 6 months in France, and partly since I thought my children might one day be curious to know what sort of person their father was. Perhaps the account of my life [...]

I am unable to join in the worldwide chorus of adulation. Obama has done nothing much other than getting elected. In his early days he had some unsatisfactory associates and his election to the Senate is a murky business. As a Senator he has toed the party line and kept a low profile. His election [...]

There are two articles here that are of some value in their own right but which I have placed on this site because I refer to them in a short note I have submitted to Crop Protection. December 2008