Author: Vincent Heywood
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AdventWord 2023: Light
Warning – nerdy ramble alert! Let’s talk about light… Light, scientifically speaking, is both weird and fundamental. Let’s take weird first. From the time of the ancients, light was believed to be composed of particles, and indeed it is. In the modern era these particles are called “photons”, and once it was realised that they
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AdventWord 2023: Peace
Finding Peace… I have always had trouble finding peace. For me, being on the autism spectrum, seems to mean having a mind that is constantly probing, analysing and questioning. If there isn’t anything to focus on, it will create something. Either out of whole cloth or it will capture some trivial thought that doesn’t warrant
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AdventWord 2022: Fire
Vincent in the workshop Fire and the deliberate creation of fire is something that only humans do. Just about any other attribute that homo sapiens possess can be found elsewhere in the animal kingdom but not fire. Some of the earliest archaeological evidence of human habitation features fire or a fireplace. It is something that
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AdventWords 2022: Make
“What’s that on the shelf?’ my artistic friend asked. ‘A turbine blade. I designed it’, I replied proudly. ‘Oh’, she said. Visiting three weeks later she asked, ‘Why is that still there?’ ‘Because I think it’s beautiful.’ ‘Oh’, she said. I find great beauty in Concorde, a Norton, a modern suspension bridge, in calculus and
