Neil Durant
@NeilDurant
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Keyboard player in IQ and Sphere³.
England
Joined July 2008
Thank you to all who came to the IQ show at Nazca, Madrid last night. What a fantastically enthusiastic crowd!! Looking forward to returning to play in Spain again soon hopefully.
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Travel back to 1910 with a glimpse of pre-Revolutionary Russia in colour. I have enhanced this autochrome of Sophia Kozakova, taken by Peter Vedenisov 112 years ago. It is original colour (not colourised).
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I am travelling to Bury tomorrow to see the finest Prog band of the last 40 years ……… IQ …… I can’t bloody wait !!!! Beer anyone ????
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Birth of a neuron: Time-lapse footage of a stem cell differentiating into a brain cell. This is ultimately where minds and consciousness and thoughts and feelings come from. Credit: Nanolive
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Okay, I guess GPT3 (Codex/Copilot) is writing my regex from now on. I gave it the comment, the rest - including the tests - is GPT3
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Now playing … Excellent 12th and most recent release from Pete Nicholls, Andy Holmes’s and co, now entering their 5th decade as a band. Well worth a spin. Thanks to @adjenkins for reminding me what a hugely underrated band IQ are 👍
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IQ all set up and ready to play our first show in almost two years, at the 229 in London. Now, how do the songs go again...?
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When Einstein proposed his theory of relativity, he also proposed an experiment that had the potential to prove him wrong. Real science makes bold, falsifiable predictions and invites criticism.
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Before clocks, there were candle clocks, that when burned, effectively indicated the passage of periods of time especailly indoor & at night. To set an alarm, you pushed a nail into the desired point and the nail would ld fall and clank on the metal holder https://t.co/oDVXgmSD8S
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Today is a proud day for @Pfizer. A day when the power of our science and our scientists’ ability to rapidly advance a homegrown asset for the benefit of humankind is on full display. Here is a quick thread:
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#OnThisDay 1971: Nationwide paid a visit to 88-year-old Alfred Tabb who was keeping “fit as a fiddle” using impossibly small bicycles.
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BREAKING: the final test of System 002 is completed, and we have another big catch on deck. The Great Pacific Garbage Patch can now be cleaned. The crew is already sorting the catch, and lots of information is still to be processed. Stay tuned!
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A cross-section of an elephant’s foot alongside a human foot x-ray, revealing a striking skeletal likeness [source, credit, University of Queensland: https://t.co/jHXAXg7iSj]
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“When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that blow that did it but all that had gone before.”
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Promising. Whether or not it pans out, this is progress: https://t.co/2GmbUHyy5X Can we please do whatever it takes to maintain this rate of progress in other areas of research too?
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“Student came to me & said Dr.Dix I'm going to miss class… I don't have a babysitter. I said yes you do, bring him to class I'll take care of him.” - drqeel_ifbbpro/IG If it takes a village was a person. He is in the running for teacher of the year! #BecauseOfTheWeCan
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