{"id":906,"date":"2011-09-15T10:49:15","date_gmt":"2011-09-15T09:49:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=906"},"modified":"2011-09-15T10:49:15","modified_gmt":"2011-09-15T09:49:15","slug":"dark-matter-in-bradford-and-westminster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2011\/09\/15\/dark-matter-in-bradford-and-westminster\/","title":{"rendered":"Dark Matter in Bradford and Westminster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To Bradford for an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org\/\">Ellen MacArthur Foundation<\/a> session at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishscienceassociation.org\/web\/BritishScienceFestival\/\">British Science Festival<\/a>.\u00a0 One refreshing thing about the EMF is its steadfast refusal to use words and concepts like eco \/ sustainable \/ green \u2013 largely on the grounds that they're meaningless to the people they are trying to influence.\u00a0 Would that we were all so disciplined.<\/p>\n<p>The government finds itself caught in these headlights at the moment, having foolishly invoked the concept of <em>sustainable development<\/em> as the condition for new building permission, and then by refusing to say what it mean by this.\u00a0 They know, as do, increasingly, we, that here 'sustainable' is an empty signifier.<\/p>\n<p>I note, from yesterday\u2019s PMQs, that this has now become \u201c<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/earth\/hands-off-our-land\/8763931\/Hands-Off-Our-Land-the-300000-new-homes-already-in-the-bank.html\">sensible<\/a><\/em> sustainable development\u201d.\u00a0 Dear me!\u00a0 The hole (literally and metaphorically) just gets bigger.<\/p>\n<p>At the Festival, I also went to talks on the search for dark matter (which is now assumed to exist, and which \u2013 oddly \u2013 it is actually possible to \u201csee\u201d.\u00a0 Nice pics.\u00a0 Two questions from these sessions stick in my mind:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Is there dark matter in this room? <\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The answer is \u201cyes\u201d it seems, though you'd not know it. \u00a0And ...<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Are we using the right models to allow us to understand what we\u2019re doing?<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I wonder if government asks this question.\u00a0 The EMF certainly does.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To Bradford for an Ellen MacArthur Foundation session at the British Science Festival.\u00a0 One refreshing thing about the EMF is its steadfast refusal to use words and concepts like eco \/ sustainable \/ green \u2013 largely on the grounds that...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":237,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comment","category-news-and-updates"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/237"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/906\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}