The Spoon Drawer

Image Source:  http://twentysomethingliving.com/why-you-need-to-visit-barcelona/ Ever since I first visited Barcelona, it has captivated my heart and imagination, compelling me to return time and time again. Even when I returned to the heart of Catalonia during a time of intense flooding , it didn’t fail to disappoint me and to this day I am able to find new corners of the city to fascinate and intrigue me. Imagine my surprise then, when I read in the local paper that a “chavtastic” corner of Brighton is set to become the UK equivalent of La Rambla in Barcelona. If you are not familiar with Brighton, West Street is infamous in our seaside-city for being more than a little run down and despite the council’s best efforts, it continues to attract those who feel the desire to fight and cause other generally anti-social behaviour. The plans to spruce up West Street include a Barcelona–style tree-lined boulevard with an abundance of hotels, restaurants and tasteful street

After the big Scotland in/out referendum last year and the general election back in May, attentions have now firmly turned towards the next massive vote to impact upon the UK - that of EU membership. One of David Cameron's election pledges was that he'd open the debate on EU membership to the electorate, promising us a referendum before the end of 2017 to decide on whether we stay or leave. https://www.flickr.com/photos/124913477@N08/ Now of course just because the bigoted liar promised us a referendum as part of his election campaign that doesn't guarantee it has to happen. After all Cameron famously claimed he'd not be reducing tax credits and yet that's exactly what the party have tried to do this week, although thankfully they've so far failed to get the cuts past the House of Lords, but that's another issue! So Cameron's promises aren't worth the paper they're printed on however in this instance the backlash he'd face from his

Since finding the God particle over three years ago, scientists at CERN chose not to rest on their laurels and have continued pushing for new answers in the field of physics. The wider population, especially after hearing of the Higgs Boson discovery , may not have been following the amazing work CERN has been doing since 2012 with the Large Hadron Collider in Geneva.  Source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/azure_radiation/ After its major discovery, the LHC was shut down for refurbishment, and word died down about the project. In May 2015 however, the LHC was switched back on to continue the search for more elusive particle masses which helped form the universe in the early stage of the big bang. The Higgs Boson itself was incremental to the formation of billion-year-old universal matter into the planets and galaxies we observe today, serving as an invisible field which bonded these elements to create the world as we know it today.   Although the LHC has technically comple