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Gravelly Hill Interchange, Birmingham, seen from above.

Detail from a fourteenth-century copy of Bechbretha (‘bee-judgements’), an early Irish law-text concerned with bees, beekeeping and the ownership of stray swarms.

One of the things I like about Blot is that the site is a folder.

1744 map of London showing Sir Christopher Wren’s plan for reconstructing the city following the 1666 Great Fire of London.

In 2010, when I worked at the BBC, Leigh Dodds and I developed the BBC Wildlife Ontology.

Damaraland, Namibia.

Most weak product ideas are not weak because a team cannot build them.

A section of a mouse pancreas stained for insulin: part of the invisible system Type 1 diabetes turns into work.

Feral Goats!

A Chinese market where street-traders load up their baskets.

A futuristic vision: technology is over-sophisticated, and the masses devote themselves to intellectual pursuits, while the basic needs of society are neglected.

The future used to arrive as an image.

“Old card catalog” by Eric E Castro, CC BY 2.0, via Flickr One of the strange things about large language models is that the answer arrives already composed.

Palm-leaf manuscript, Sanskrit Epsilon 1.

”Always design a thing by considering it in its next larger context - a chair in a room, a room in a house, a house in an environment, an environment in a city plan.”

Our Mum; Church Cove, Cornwall Our mother was beautiful in every sense.

FOMO is not a strategy A slide from Rachel Coldicutt for a talk she gave at the Scottish AI Summit.

Bleigiessen sculpture by Thomas Heatherwick.

Banyan tree (Ficus benghalensis) growing on a lakeside.

Shearing layers Shearing layers is a way of thinking about how different parts of a system change at different speeds.

Abstract From the late 1890s Henry Wellcome, through a succession of agents amassed a large and diverse collection covering all aspects of what it is to be human.

Dad 1927 was the year that Ford stopped production of the Model T, the year that for all practical purposes Television was invented, the year that the Spirit of St.

Cover of the first issue of Nature, 4 November 1869.

In many ways I’ve been very lucky at the BBC I’ve helped make some cool stuff — well stuff I’m proud of.

Linking Enterprise Data (2010) Yves Raimond, Tom Scott, Silver Oliver, Patrick Sinclair and Michael Smethurst Abstract The BBC publishes large amounts of content online, as text, audio and video.

European Semantic Web Conference, 2009 Georgi Kobilarov, Tom Scott, Yves Raimond, Silver Oliver, Chris Sizemore, Michael Smethurst, Christian Bizer & Robert Lee Winner of Best In-Use-Track Paper Award.

Joining bbc.co.uk to the rest of the web For the past 86 years the BBC has plied its trade as a storytelling organisation.