Certificate of Excellence

Awarded to:

• My daughter, Willow, for finding a fossilised sharks teeth on Christchurch beach. One tinier than a rose thorn.
• Rachel Quarrell for running 'The Cafe Scientific in Oxford'. http://www.cafesci.org/oxford/. Keeping it fascinating and dealing with 'real' issues.
• Peter Woit for criticising string theory and creating a long running blog that is a constructive reality check. http://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/
• Participants and organisers of the World Naked Bike Ride for eco reality check.
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Naked_Bike_Ride
• Yves Tanguy for spectacularly creating images with no link to reality whatsoever (my perfect escapism in pictures).

I will make a 'web based' homage to each of these praises which will link to this page. More praises will be added.