Craftek

13/11/2022

Canned goods

13/11/2022

13/11/2022

Very happy

12/11/2022

We were delighted to get an award for stand design last night
Thanks to and

22/10/2022

Excellent beer selection at
Great to travel again, it’s been 3 years since we visited

21/10/2022

12 hours into my week in Holland
Great to get back out into the world

27/04/2022

01/03/2022

Second of our new lamps for the day
We’ve been doing alot of 3D printing during lockdown, now it’s time to get some of our tests out there and see what people think

01/03/2022

Silly humans
Will you not listen

WAR — A Message for Our Time
Bertrand Russell

The Russell-Einstein Manifesto warned that nuclear weapons pose a threat to the survival of the human species and called for major efforts to address and contain nuclear dangers. Two of the twentieth century’s most famous intellectuals, philosopher Bertrand Russell and physicist Albert Einstein (who died several months before the text was released), issued this manifesto in London on July 9, 1955. They urged a peaceful resolution to all international conflict.

The Russell-Einstein Manifesto (1955)

"We are speaking on this occasion, not as members of this or that nation, continent, or creed, but as human beings, members of the species Man, whose continued existence is in doubt. We shall try to say no single word which should appeal to one group rather than to another.

All, equally, are in peril, and, if the peril is understood, there is hope that they may collectively avert it. We have to learn to think in a new way. Here, then, is the problem which we present to you, stark and dreadful and inescapable: Shall we put an end to the human race; or shall mankind renounce war? People will not face this alternative because it is so difficult to abolish war. The abolition of war will demand distasteful limitations of national sovereignty. But what perhaps impedes understanding of the situation more than anything else is that the term "mankind" feels vague and abstract.

People scarcely realize in imagination that the danger is to themselves and their children and their grandchildren, and not only to a dimly apprehended humanity. They can scarcely bring themselves to grasp that they, individually, and those whom they love are in imminent danger of perishing agonizingly. And so they hope that perhaps war may be allowed to continue provided modern weapons are prohibited. This hope is illusory.

There lies before us, if we choose, continual progress in happiness, knowledge, and wisdom. Shall we, instead, choose death, because we cannot forget our quarrels? We appeal as human beings to human beings: Remember your humanity, and forget the rest. If you can do so, the way lies open to a new Paradise; if you cannot, there lies before you the risk of universal death."

Image: Original vinyl jacket cover to a recording of the Russell-Einstein Manifesto. The manifesto called for a conference where scientists would assess the dangers posed to the survival of humanity by weapons of mass destruction (then only considered to be nuclear weapons). Emphasis was placed on the meeting being politically neutral. It extended the question of nuclear weapons to all people and governments.

One particular phrase is quoted often:

"Remember your humanity, and forget the rest."

01/03/2022

We’ve launched our new range of coasters at
Things are going well at the show, it’s good to start getting back to normal