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I’m a controversialist and catalyst, quietly enabling others to develop by providing different ideas and views of the world. Born in London in the early 1950s and initially trained as a research chemist I retired as a senior project manager after 35 years in the IT industry. Retirement is about community give-back and finding some equilibrium. Founder and Honorary Secretary of the Anthony Powell Society. Chairman of my GP's patient group.
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Ten Things: December

This year our Ten Things column each month is concentrating on science and scientists.

Where a group is described as “great” or “important” this is not intended to imply these necessarily the greatest or most important, but only that they are up there amongst the top flight.

Things Science Can’t Fully Explain

  1. Why we sleep
  2. Why we dream
  3. Why cats purr
  4. Placebo effect
  5. How paracetamol works
  6. Gravity
  7. Why it takes more genes to make a tomato than a human
  8. Why we yawn
  9. Dark Matter
  10. Big Bang & Inflation