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EcoTech - Exhibition and display centre based on sustainability. Information about the centre, the wind turbine, grounds and facilities. Details for visitors, and of conference services. Swaffham.
Aviation Environment Federation - Deals with the adverse environmental impacts of aviation, including noise, air quality, climate change and sustainability issues.
Positive Power - News about renewable energy, survey, free email, search facility and web links. A UK based portal for renewable energies and environmental technology.
The Tree Council - Founded in 1974 to improve the environment in town and country by promoting the planting and conservation of trees and woods.
The Royal Society - Dedicated to recognizing excellence in science, furthering the role of science, engineering and technology and promoting public understanding of science.
Electronics Weekly HyperActive - Source of information for electronics engineers providing a customisable news, recruitment and product information service.
North West Coast - PISCES - The Partnership of Irish Sea Coast and Estuary Strategies. A group of 10 local partnerships which aims to promote the sustainable use and integrated management of the UK's North West coast.
The Tree Register - Registered charity with database of over 125,000 big, ancient, historical and tall trees in the UK. Some website facilities available to members only.
ScienceNet - A free science information service, staffed by scientists who are expert in explaining complex topics in everyday language. Search the online database of previously answered questions, otherwise submit a question via e-mail.
The Institute of Physics - The site for physics and physicists, including information on Institute membership and activities, online news, books, magazines and journals.
National Institute for Environmental e-Science - Details of its programmes, projects, events, personnel.
Environmental Data Services Ltd (ENDS) - Provides environmental intelligence for professionals in Europe, including news, jobs, events and web site listing.
Edinburgh International Science Festival - Annual event in early April includes events and shows relating to science and technology. Features exhibitions, workshops, tours, talks, demonstrations and hands-on activities, all aimed at the general public.
Web of Knowledge - Citation and journal database. For academic users, requires authentication and login.
Scotland and Northern Ireland Forum for Environmental Research - Identifies and manages environmental research on behalf of members and stakeholders.
Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read. -- Frank Zappa They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them. -- Anonymous blah "Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach yo What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset. -- Crowf By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you will become a philosopher. -- Socrates Science and Environment Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a thing to be acheived. -- William Jennings Bryant "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Science and Environment "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure. - Ross MacDonald The covers of this book are too far apart. -- Ambrose Bierce An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field. -- Niels Bohr One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important. -- Bertrand Russell Science and Environment You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you will "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love. -- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Science and Environment The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them. - Albert Einstein "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind. -- Cindy Crawford, supermodel The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance. -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first. -- Billy Sunday Science and Environment The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy the waking hours much more. -- Woody Allen Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot- proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you. -- Adlai Stevenson Science and Environment Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense. -- Thomas Arnold Bennet Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul. -- Jean Cocteau Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love. -- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Science and Environment True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery. -- Victor Hugo In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others. -- André Maurois I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said, "Would you like some fries with that?" -- Jay Leno Science and Environment Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back. - Paul Erdos People only see what they are prepared to see. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness. -- Sigmund Freud The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy the waking hours much more. -- Woody Allen Value your words. Each one may be the last. -- Stanislaw J. Lec Science and Environment Laywers, I suppose, were children once. -- Charles Lamb The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity. -- Helen Hayes "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Science and Environment There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. - Albert Einstein Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat. -- Mark Twain 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time. -- inside of a Pepsi cap Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does. -- Groucho Marx Do or do not. There is no try. -- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back Science and Environment "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe. -- Jackie Mason Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish. -- Ovid Science and Environment "I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years. -- Sam Kinison A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is something everybody believes, except the person who made it. -- Albert Einstein, attributed Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind. -- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong? -- Jenny Weber Science and Environment The less their ability, the more their conceit. Ahad HaAm If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion. -- George Bernard Shaw "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) Science and Environment Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth. -- Peter Ustinov If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be. -- Richard Mitchell, from "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) Wagner's music is better than it sounds. - Mark Twain He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that Science and Environment We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified. -- Aesop The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them. -- Mark Twain Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food. -- Anonymous Science and Environment "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who marries a man to reform him. -- Elbert Hubbard "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) "The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar Science and Environment Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected. -- Oscar Wilde "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) Science and Environment My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no character. -- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig I married beneath me. All women do. -- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear. -- Woody Allen Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing. -- Oscar Wilde Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. Science and Environment A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it. -- Zsa Zsa Gabor "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) While we are postponing, life speeds by. - Seneca (3BC - 65AD) Science and Environment We must become the change we want to see. -- Gandhi >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it. -- Groucho Marx Flowers are words which even a baby can understand. -- Arthur C. Coxe "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature. -- Henry James Science and Environment Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) Science and Environment
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