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• Have we found the universe that existed before the Big Bang?
  Maybe, maybe not. Either way, my head hurts.
  science physics astronomy

• Welcome to The Charles Close Society | The Charles Close Society
  You just get the feeling that 90% of the members of this society are male.
  Ordnance_Survey maps Charles_Close_Society cartography
• David Archer Maps | Ordnance Survey maps from mid-Wales
  Must…put…credit…card…away!
  Ordnance_Survey maps shop
• British Library: Ordnance Survey: small scale maps
  Classification guide for researchers.
  OS Ordnance_Survey maps

• GovernorNet
  Resource for school governors.
  school governor education

• BBC News – Sussex passenger train slides for two-and-a-half miles
  Good job this didn't happen on any of the sections of this line with single line operating. It could have been Cowden all over again. The leaf blowers are certainly out and about – I've seen and heard them – but "our" branch line uses different (diesel) stock, so I'm not sure they would slide in the same way.
  train accident leaves

• Sniffer ‘hero rats’ saving lives in war zones and labs < Pets | Expatica The Netherlands
  It takes two landmine clearance experts two days to clear a patch of 200 square metres. It takes two trained rats two hours to complete the same task.
  landmines rats

• Iain Dale’s Diary: Is There a Future for Books?
  Thoughtful article on the future of publishing. Is it as bleak as that? I hope not. I work in an industry where specialist monographs that probably only sell a few hundred copies at best have been the normal method to disseminate specialist information. Perhaps e-books might save them, but I rather suspect the publication of specialist information on specialist websites that can be easily and frequently updated are more likely to sound their death knell than the lack of bookshop distribution or low cover prices.
  books publishing opinion

• SUVARNAMUKHI BIO-TECH
  Huge Indian TC lab. This is the way that tissue culture is going – I know of very few European labs that still carry out production in Europe. Clean stock, protocol development and initiation in Europe, perhaps, but volume production is almost always carried out in low labour cost nations.
  TC tissue_culture plants horticulture India

• Becoming a governor
  Information on what school governors do.
  school governor East_Sussex education

• Home – Skylark
  This shop is rather small, but I could happily spend hours (and lots of money) in there. I've always felt that the range of stuff on offer is more or less aimed at someone like me – eclectic books and music, fun small gifts, slight nostalgia for the 80s and early 90s, an interest in things out-of-the-ordinary-but-not-too-far-out. Very highly recommended.
  Skylark shop Lewes

• Hello Kitty Maker Sniffy Over Miffy: Sanrio Ordered To Pull Cathy Character In Three Countries | Business | Sky News
  I've always felt that Hello Kitty was nothing but a blatant rip-off of Miffy/Nijntje, who is a rather older animal born in 1955. In fact, Hello Kitty is banned from this house on moral grounds. At last, Mercis bv, the company that licences Dick Bruna's creation, have got one over on Sanrio. But I suspect that Sanrio have better resources to throw at a legal battle, so, as usual, it will be a case of who blinks/runs out of cash first. But first blood to Mercis, a good thing IMHO.
  Miffy Hello_Kitty copyright IP law