I am trying to work out all the places I would like to visit in the UK. I would love to visit Faraday House but as far as I can tell there is not too much there. I would love to visit the home of the Royal Institution and its museum to see the works of Faraday but it is most likely that this will be closed for building work 🙁

Another place I would love to visit is Rugby. Not for that reason. Seriously. Well, maybe, but there is another reason. The Rugby VLF transmitters are where british time signals have been sent from. This site is closing down so they are removing the historic antennas; antennas which really are a local landmark due to their sheer size.

Today I also grabbed a few highlighter pens, and I was puzzled to see a comment on the side saying that the pen “Conforms to ASTM D-4236.”. I have only come accross ASTM when I was doing a subject called Materials Technology at uni where the ASTM standarised the tests on the hardnesses of materials. ASTM stands for American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM). So, how does this relate to a highlighter pen. Well, according to this site, in 1988 the US givernment required that all art materials be analysed for their long term toxicity, and they be labeled if they were found to be toxic. Those that were not toxic are labeled as complying to the ASTM standard. So there!