I’ve only ever done journalism as a hobby thing. When publications first started producing Internet based content, they had a shortage of material, so there was often the opportunity to submit articles for publication. It’s quite nice if you can pick up £50 for something that you can knock out in your lunchtime.
The Top Gear things were generally just fun things - music to listen to when driving etc. I did do a bigger piece about diesel car economics which was related to something I’d been doing at work. Quentin helped out on the resale value element as he knew more about the industry.
The last thing I had in a print magazine was the short lived “Planet Rock” magazine. It was just a sidebar about bargain bucket album finds.
This is Wilkins erasure (one of her colleagues at King’s College who was the third recipient of the Nobel). In reality the Nobel award is not given posthumously and she died very young (cancer related to her x ray exposure), several years before the committee recognized the rest of the group for their work on DNA
This is what I wrote a while back on the Science thread about the modern idea that Franklin was robbed of recognition
The Kings College data Watson and Crick used was partially Watkins’ and he openly shared it with them. After everything was ultimately put together, the 4 of them agreed to a publication plan that had Watson a Crick publish their work independently, with the two KC investigators publishing separate accompanying papers reporting their separate contributions to the foundational data. At the time, the papers were very much viewed as a collection and Franklin had every bit her say in how that information was disseminated and how the credit was attributed. I think some of the “Franklin was robbed” ideas come from modern views of the patriarchy that paint her as Peggy Olson (Mad Men) type character who was demeaned by the male establishment, but descriptions of her from her friends show her anything but.
Interestingly, for all the “where is the proper attribution” ideas about how Watson and Crick used the Kings College data, the famous “photo 51” was captured neither by Wilkins nor Franklin, but by a grad student who went back and forth between them, which was why Wilkens believed the photo to be his, scientifically speaking. Ultimately Franklin is referenced in every textbook about the structure of DNA yet poor old Wilkins (and his grad student) is actually largely forgotten
The legacy he carried for such a small library of work is absolutely incredible and speaks volumes for just how appreciated that work was.
As I started writing this I realized it would probably be interpreted as a criticism or a dismissal, but I actually mean it as a mark of how brightly he (especially when considered as a rhythm section with Reni) burned and how influential that made him.
It rather amuses (and delights me) when I see teenagers wearing T-shirts with the Ramones, Motörhead or Nirvana on. I’m old enough to have actually seen those bands play live, but too old (middle aged spread) to get away with wearing the merch.
Love Spreads was used in one of the episodes of S2 of Severance and I noticed a big uptick in talk about them here around that. I dont know if it was a real thing of new people finding them or just long time fans being happy to see them get recognition in the US.
