Comments on Crash Landing: Steam Engines and Scholars

We talk that we are often attracted by the 2moons ...

2008-12-23T04:20:00.000-05:00

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The person who said the buildings were better buil...

2007-12-17T16:06:00.000-05:00

The person who said the buildings were better built then may very well be right -- I'm just pointing out that the way many people try to decide this -- 'the buildings I see around now that are from then...' -- doesn't work.

Someone being interviewed talked about Victorian t...

2007-12-17T14:49:00.000-05:00

Someone being interviewed talked about Victorian times being the era of 'well-built buildings.' Maybe that's true -- but you're sure can't determine it by just looking around you at the buildings built now and those built then. That's because your samples aren't the same.

Hmm... I think I'll at least take the original buildings of British universities founded at the start of the C20th (e.g. Cardiff) over those of British universities founded in the 1960s (e.g. York). Though, I confess the creaky little grey shacks that house York's Politics department have a certain charm nonetheless...