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Sizing sheet material for a solar conical concentrator

Memorising a stronger cryptographic key for the same effort

Experiences memorising cryptographic-strength secrets

Authenticating a public key from a globally unique name continued

Safe and cheap DIY gutter inspection on a two-storey house

Biblical lampstand in an ancient Roman carving

Intercept of Princess Diana's phone was retransmitted repeatedly

An insider's angle on USA's 1997 refusal to sign land mine treaty

YouTube's fraudulent adverts for electric heaters

Two figures of speech common to Isaiah and the Cyrus cylinder

The technique of injecting lies to discredit a story

Disguised contract murders in a 2020 non-fiction book

Chronic diffuse cloud and haze over England in 2023 and 2024

Ideas for a solar cooker with a conical concentrator

Dissolved copper levels in a copper solar kettle

Cambridge mowing conserving wildflowers

“Herbicide Free Area” signs in a Cambridge street in 2024

Authenticating a public key from just a name - a feasibility study with GPL code

A way to use spare screen width on a website

Mordecai Vanunu, kidnapped after revealing atomic secrets - 1986 press cutting

Air pollution possibly reducing crop yields, 1978 press cutting

Former MI5 employees Cathy Massiter and another revealing telephone tapping and infiltration of unions and CND in a 1985 press cutting

A 1991 letter from John Pilger on a newspaper's coverage of his documentary on Cambodia

A design for passwords with system-assigned randomness and user choice

Making coffee from unground beans

Measured efficiency of an induction hob and an electric kettle heating water

Illustrating two causes of inefficiency in electric kettles sold in the 2020s

Cape gooseberry plants with fruit under glass photographed in England in April

Notes on the radiation spectrum for solar heating and sky cooling

An addendum to information on ‘Strategic Investment’ newsletter

Higher net power from a solar kettle heating water in glass rather than copper

Testing cheap insulators on a home-made parabolic trough solar kettle

Trying bubble wrap as an insulator for a home-made solar kettle

Trying silicone tubing as an insulator for a home-made solar kettle

A recipe for meals of natural ingredients cooked with only a kettle

Lepron project part 4: pseudowords with entropy of 3.5 bits/letter from trigrams

A home-made catch-and-release mouse trap with no moving parts

Filling and emptying a home-made parabolic trough solar kettle

An oak eggar moth caterpillar photographed in England in May

Experiences using a fruit-picker tool with a grabber claw for apples

The wildflower alexanders (Smyrnium olusatrum) photographed in Cornwall in May

A home-made solar kettle, its performance and its problems

Empirical explorations of faster Fermat factorisation, part 9

Empirical explorations of faster Fermat factorisation, part 8

A garden spider (Araneus diadematus) photographed in England in September

A reader's guide to Clarion style and values

Photographs of “Extinction rebellion” demonstrators and police blocking a central Cambridge street in 2019

Empirical explorations of faster Fermat factorisation, part 7

An idea for human-friendly hex strings in cryptographic key fingerprints

Empirical explorations of faster Fermat factorisation, part 6

Empirical explorations of faster Fermat factorisation, part 5

Empirical explorations of faster Fermat factorisation, part 4

“Save our tree-lined avenues” on a banner in residential Cambridge, 2017

A photograph of Darwin College's 1964 foundation plaque

A police helicopter photographed over Cambridge in 2017

Silver Y moths photographed in England in September

The idea of moist air as a heat transfer fluid in energy-efficient home heating

A tachinid fly photographed in England in August

A knot grass moth caterpillar photographed in England in June

Lackey moth cocoon and caterpillars photographed in England in May

A well-tried way to make coffee without equipment

Which web search engines have their own index? Evidence from website visits

An oak eggar moth caterpillar photographed in England in November

Death of MP Stephen Milligan on front page of The Guardian, 8 February 1994

More on death of MP Stephen Milligan in The Guardian of 11 February 1994

Computer work lying down comfortably with a home-made stand over the bed

Metro Bank in Cambridge open after dark, photographed February 2019

Reporter Simon O'Dwyer-Russell's obituary in Sunday Telegraph, 16 December 1990

A heron photographed in June in Cambridge

A common field grasshopper photographed in October in England

A fox moth caterpillar photographed in October in England

Structures of a nut mould photographed through a cheap microscope

Empirical explorations of faster Fermat factorisation, part 3

Empirical explorations of faster Fermat factorisation, part 2

Empirical explorations of faster Fermat factorisation, part 1

Caterpillar parasitoids in cocoons photographed in England

Photograph of metallic gold on a chrysalis in England

Reporters protecting sources: in 2021 Reuters removed a clause from its “Standards and Values” web page

Photograph of a bust of Osman Kazazi in Tirana, Albania 2009

Photograph of a man selling lighter refills on the street, Albania 2009

British SAS trained Khmer Rouge in land mines - an extract from a book of reporting

Lepron project part 3: A first attempt at pronounceable passwords using dice for quantified strength

Photograph of a cabbage white butterfly with her eggs laid on a kale leaf

Six-spot burnet moth photographs showing proboscis

Lepron project part 2: towards public key authentication without central authority using names made of pseudowords

Lepron, a project to develop pronounceable pseudowords for representing binary strings - Part 1: introduction and goals

A letter corroborating that Nazi-era writer H. Powys Greenwood was ‘John Custance’, author of a 1951 book on his own personal experiences of madness

UPDATE to ‘An idea for public key authentication from a name without certificates or central authority’

An idea for public key authentication from a name without certificates or central authority

A 1963 article from The Times: “MR. GAITSKELL RETURNS TO HOSPITAL”

T-33 USA military plane and misleading text exhibited in Albania, 2009

Towards a philosophy, theory and practice of reporting, part 1

Statue of Reuters founder in City of London - photographs

Возле эквадорского посольства в знак солидарности с Джулианом Ассанжем

Saudi Arabia: BBC interviewed a convicted perjurer linked to the ruling family without alerting its audience and then insisted this was acceptable

Statue of chief of WW2 Bomber Command in central London - photos

UPDATE title to: ‘Cats, corona virus and genetic susceptibility in a 2014 science talk’

Cambridge demolishing council homes

1967 USA Congressional Record, 9 March: ‘Control of the CIA’

The classic 1967 Ramparts Magazine article exposing the CIA's infiltration of the National Student Association and money laundering through tax-exempt foundations

A personal script for a guided body scan “meditation” or attention exercise

Cambridge student demonstration against arms trade investments, 2007

UPDATE to: ‘Michael Mansfield QC talked in tribute to Michael Seifert’

Coconut oil fatty acid composition on a jar label

“Shut Guantanamo now!” demonstration in London, 15 July 2006

A visit to a “traveller’s” home at Smithy Fen, Cambridgeshire in 2005

NY World Trade Centre collapse survivor's 2006 public account

Council spraying glyphosate-based weedkiller in Cambridge streets, 2019

Arthur Scargill, former miners' union president, speaking in 2006

A simple way to represent cryptographic key fingerprints

Darwinian theory: “huge disparity” between public presentation and scientific literature

UK tax-efficient charity: a way to quadruple a donation