Jan

1st

2016

New Year: 2016 is here! · 12:46am Jan 1st, 2016

Happy New Year everyone! It is now 2016 in London. This year I am just enjoying a quiet time at home.

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Dec

30th

2015

Science and Star Wars · 2:33pm Dec 30th, 2015

Sources: Twilight, Celestia, Luna

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Dec

25th

2015

Happy Hearth's Warming · 11:37pm Dec 25th, 2015

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Dec

20th

2015

Notes on Humans and Ponies in Space · 2:17pm Dec 20th, 2015

This week the world of British science communicators has been buzzing with talk about the adventures of Tim Peake.

From a global perspective, this is not exactly newsworthy. Tim is a European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut, who is boldly going where—err—some two hundred people have gone before and starting a six month mission on the International Space Station.

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Dec

18th

2015

Beware of Falling Rocks · 6:48pm Dec 18th, 2015

The Equestrian military instructor stared at the class in front of him. Each pony completely focussed on his instruction. These were no young cadets, but soldiers with experience enough to know that missing a single detail could cost them their life. They had served on the Northern Front when Sombra had attacked the pass. Unable to withstand the onslaught they had been forced to retreat as the Crystal Army had swept into Equestria. Sombra’s army had control over half the country and the Royal

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Dec

11th

2015

The Art of Climate Control: Rainbow Dash, Twilight and Rarity visit Paris and discuss how to tackle Global Warming · 6:25pm Dec 11th, 2015

Sources: Rainbow Dash, Rarity, Twilight, Paris background.

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Dec

6th

2015

Author’s Notes and Mutant Hybrid Fiction · 3:49pm Dec 6th, 2015

I have now uploaded some 3600 words of Author’s Notes to Time on Their Hooves, spread across the seven chapters, to provide further details on the science, history and other random references to real world trivia which were woven into this story, from Zero Longitude to Atomic Clocks.

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Dec

5th

2015

Fable of Modern Materials · 7:29pm Dec 5th, 2015

This made me laugh:

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Dec

4th

2015

Breaking News and Timelines · 1:41pm Dec 4th, 2015

What would have happened if Rainbow Dash had never done her sonic rainboom?

The Cloudsdale Courier would have had to find something else to fill the front page on a summer no-news day.

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Nov

29th

2015

Equality, Fairness and the Abuse of Mathematical Notation · 1:39pm Nov 29th, 2015

That was a suitably awesome finale to the season. Great to revisit the sonic rainboom and Starswirl’s time travel spell (this time with multiple epic pony wars), and learn something about Starlight Glimmer’s history.

Altogether it has been a busy season, both on the show, and in the real world.

May 2015