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#TwistedTropes 30. Halley's boring comet

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Image from NASA Universe on Flickr Comets are generally quite spectacular. Is it because it has a fatal attraction to our sun? Santa's marginalised reindeer Halley's boring comet by Steve Wheeler was written in Plymouth, England and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0

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Dirty tricks

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Image from Wikimedia Commons It's the silly season. When everyone else is sunning themselves on the Costa, the poor admissions tutors (I know. Dirty tricks by Steve Wheeler was written in Plymouth, England and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 All's fair in love and war.

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What we don't know

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Why is the sun 400 times larger than the moon and 400 times further away, thus appearing to be exactly the same size and producing perfect solar eclipses every time? Image from Pixabay What we don''t know by Steve Wheeler is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.

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60 years ago today

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Today I have completed 60 orbits of the sun. Image from Wikimedia Commons 60 years ago today by Steve Wheeler was written in Jonkoping, Sweden and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 I have reached a milestone in my life. It all began a long time ago. Unported License.

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Parasites!

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I think guest blogging is a great idea, and if you can find someone you trust, who can write a great blog post or three while you're away sunning yourself on the Costa del Sol, then go for it. Image source Parasites! by Steve Wheeler is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0

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Just disinfect

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I think guest blogging is a good idea, and if you can find someone you trust, who can write a great blog post or two while you''re away sunning yourself on the Costa del Sol, then go for it. Image source (modified) A shorter version of this post entitled ''Parasites!'' Don''t misunderstand me. Don''t even respond. Then disinfect.

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Cammy Beans Learning Visions: The Smell of Books

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Original documents reward us for taking the trouble to find them by telling us things that no image can. Wendy Wickham This work by Cammy Bean is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 Duguid describes watching a fellow-historian systematically sniff two-hundred-and-fifty-year-old letters in an archive.

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