Can any right-minded, thinking person be surprised by this? We must de-trophy and de-club the oligarchs. bbc.com/sport/football…

I am honoured to have received a JSPS senior research fellowship to visit my friend Prof. Manabu ABE in Hiroshima. I will be there soon! JSPS 独立行政法人日本学術振興会（学振）

I grew up watching #motd but with cable/sky/BT it had hard time. No one points out all the pundits are awful. They cannot even speak English properly. Gary Lineker says nothing (=boring) for 1.5mil bbc.com/news/uk-649369…

I signed up for the new bing-AI thingy today, and got this message to my outlook, oh the irony

Manabu Abe just took me to the Hiroshima Peace Park, where the cherry blossom was in glorious full bloom

Last weekend Manabu took me to Teishima Island for lunch - stunning views of the Seto Inland Sea

Here I am with Prof Manabu ABE's team (Dr. Manabu Abe) at Uni Hiroshima (Hiroshima University Research) where I have been giving lectures sponsored by JSPS 独立行政法人日本学術振興会（学振）

I gave a seminar in Nagoya on 6-apr-23 hosted by Prof Hidehiko Nakagawa - my old friend Masanori Matsuzaki joined us for dinner from Tokyo

Does anyone know the email of Brad Amos?

This is interesting and not surprising france24.com/en/americas/20…

What is the greatest film ever made?

Ronnie Cristiano Ronaldo scored the winning goal on his 200th appearance for Portugal

I met Jules A. Hoffmann during coffee break at the HFSP conference on basic biological science and climate change. He gave a really lovely talk on his discoveries that lead to the 2011 The Nobel Prize

Nebojsa Nakicenovic showed a slide (data from NASA) during his talk at the conference on basic biological science and climate change organized by HFSP that global warming started around 1980. Not with the "Industrial Revolution" in 1830, as we are always being told.

I was in the Madison Ave Giorgio Armani (Armani) shop a few years when Tony Bennett Tony Bennett was buying a tie. He was sitting quietly contemplating options. Just imagine how may ties he had! Never too old to buy another, a good life lesson. bbc.com/news/entertain…

1/3 The HFSP (HFSP) High Level Conference on Basic biological science and climate change is online. It is fascinating. youtube.com/watch?v=tRqXQS…

2/3 The HFSP conference was organised by the amazing Dr. Guntram BAUER Guntram Bauer Here is day 2 youtube.com/watch?v=hZVZ4p…

3/3 The Nobel Prize (2007) Pavel KABAT summary at the conference is very important we are lucky to have this exception man leading HFSP youtube.com/watch?v=ukDJNL…

On 4-july-2023 I visited the old French National Library (La Bibliothèque nationale de France) to see Degas - in Black and White. I was interviewed by the lady who does their instagram. She photographed me on "wrong side" of the rope.

I do experiments every day. The true joy of science.