Ed Rybicki's Blog

I notice the last lot seem to be missing one stereo track…such are the problems of recording off someone else’s setup!

From mid 1995 to mid 1996, I hosted a weekly 2 hour music programme on University of Cape Town Radio: UCT Radio, FM 104.5 within about a 5 km radius of UCT Upper Campus.

I have for a number of years been popularising Kwanzukanaliamaseid – a mashup of all faith-based solstice or other astronomically-defined celebrations – via what is now Xwitter.

As COVID ground on, so I bought Kindle SF books – quite a LOT of Kindle books – and read them, and quite often reviewed them on the Amazon site.

I’ve done a fair bit of reading in lockdown, so here’s a selection of reviews!

Even as a science fiction fan AND a virologist, who binge-watches zombie series and is trying to write a couple of virus-themed stories…I never saw this coming.

Because I have nothing else to do (ha ha!!)

Professor David Hedding from the distance-learning hub that is the University of South Africa, recently published a “World View” editorial in Nature decrying what he calls the “publication payouts” that are given by SOME South African universities to their

Despite the fact that we are in what is rapidly becoming a MONUMENTAL water crisis here in Cape Town, and folk are bleating about mass closures of schools, businesses and yes, Universities, at my place of work we do not seem to be doing very much at all.

From anaesthetics: I really do wonder, as I fade away into that fuzzy darkness, whether I’ll come back this time.