better acquaint myself with the achievement of notable Scottish writers and thinkers

if you are Scottish then Robert Burns might legitimately be a source of national pride.

I heard someone on the radio tonight say that his poetry is really about empathy. The sangha are having a Buddhist Burns night tonight, and although I have been out to the pub with my brother this was unconnected with Burns. However I am now watching/listening to a TV programme on Burns as I enjoy a cup of green tea.

Seamus Heaney has written a poem in celebration of Burns Heaney’s tribute to the Scottish bard.

I am at an age where hearing a tune associated with Burns can bring a tear to my eye, I hate to admit.

Gi’e me a spark o’ Nature’s fire that’s a’ the learning I desire.

possibly Scottish hackers, although my sympathy for Garry McGovern is tested by all the talk of the uncovering of evidence in support of various conspiracy theories.

In his interview with the BBC he also claimed that “The Disclosure Project” says there is “extra-terrestrial in origin and [they’ve] captured spacecraft and reverse engineered it.” He also claimed to have downloaded a low-resolution image of “something not man-made” and “cigar shaped” floating above the northern hemisphere. He said that unfortunately he did not manage to get a screenshot or recording of the image because he was “bedazzled” to see the image, could not remember the capture function in the software RemotelyAnywhere, and that he was “cut off” from his connection.

Shame that. Bedazzled! begorrah:)

an additive projected image of a tartan ribbon, was taken in 1861 by the Scottish physicist James Clerk Maxwell.

History of photography – colour process

Croll investigated in the 19h Century how the earth’s orbit round the sun influences climate — the Milankovitch cycles developed by Milutin Milanković in the 20th Century.

This is ongoing.

Caught the last half of a program on Radio Scotland on Byron and his involvement on the Greek side in the Greek War of Independence. Very interesting. Must read up on Byron.

...quoted this in a letter to Tony Blair when David Blunkett (as Education Minister) tried to close A S Neill’s Summerhill School.

BBC report on Summerhill’s victory in the Law Courts in London.

...philospopher’s song

sound file

lyrics

contains a mention of David Hume.

...read Basil Mahon’s biography of JCM earlier this year.

Such as

David Hume

James Clerk Maxwell

Robert Louis Stevenson

John Muir

Naomi Mitchison

a little parochial perhaps.