Austin powers! Retired lecturer converts noisy 1934 open-top Austin Seven tourer into an eco-friendly electric runabout that uses batteries David Willis, 84, transformed his 1934 Austin Seven into a modern electric car Original 747cc petrol engine swapped for Chinese 10KW electric motor for £1.6k Top speed of 40mph and a full charge gives it around … Read more
University lecturer slams Amazon’s excessive packaging after packets of carrot seeds were delivered in FIVE separate cardboard boxes Dr Robin Pettitt shared images on Twitter of the five large boxes of packaging University lecturer ordered five bags of carrot seeds from online retail giant Revealed the seeds came packed separately, and said he was going to … Read more
A university lecturer has won a £15,000 payout after being unfairly sacked from job for ‘aggressive’ behaviour – by sending too many question marks in text messages. Dr Binoy Sobnack, a physics lecturer at the University of Loughborough, created an ‘intimidating tone’ with his use of ‘multiple punctuation marks’, a tribunal heard. He was removed … Read more
A university lecturer was stunned when hackers doodled genitals across her Shakespeare presentation during a Q&A session with students. Dr Sarah Olive had been putting forward her linguistics research to a class of dozens at the University of York when the lecture was suddenly sabotaged. The senior lecturer had been talking for 50 minutes when … Read more
Equality campaigner Trevor Phillips said Prince Harry used ’empty jargon’ that ‘he doesn’t appear to understand’ when being interviewed about race alongside Meghan Markle yesterday. Mr Phillips – the former head of the Equality and Human Rights Commission – said the Duke of Sussex‘s use of the term ‘structural racism’ made him sound ‘like a 1980s … Read more
A university lecturer shared an informative Twitter thread about far-right hate symbols after spotting a man covered in white supremacist tattoos. Suraj Lakhani, a sociology academic at Sussex University, shared photos of the unidentified man on Twitter over the weekend after seeing him shopping in Brighton. The man had at least four tattoos with apparent … Read more
An amateur astrophotographer and university lecturer has revealed the stunning pictures of space he took during lockdown – from his back garden. Russell Discombe, 32, has always loved taking photos of the cosmos but was able to devote himself to it during lockdown. The enthusiast turned his attention to the sky – and said he is … Read more
As a young engineer, Stephen Lamonby was taken under the wing of an elderly colleague and given a piece of wisdom he has never forgotten – ‘Knowledge not passed on is knowledge wasted.’ Over the next half century, Mr Lamonby, now 73, designed Navy torpedoes, satellite-carrying rockets, oil rigs and special effects for Hollywood blockbusters … Read more
A university lecturer was sacked after claiming ‘Jewish people are the cleverest in the world’ and ‘Germans are good engineers’. Stephen Lamonby claimed his comments were not racist or offensive because he was using ‘positive stereotypes’. The 73-year-old also said he ‘had a soft spot’ for young black men because they are underprivileged and ‘need … Read more
Stunning images of the Sun showing its surface bubbling with white-hot plasma are captured by a retired photography lecturer from his garden in Kent Paul Andrew, 66, of Dover, Kent captures the incredible images using a customised Lund 152 telescope The images show the tumultuous surface of our star, which is more than 90million miles away from … Read more