Yearly Archives: 2005

Intelligent design

Posted on June 2, 2005 by acb

I was talking to Oliver Morton yesterday and he had just heard from Francis Crick’s biographer some hot news about molybdenum, which is essential to life, and was very scarce for about a billion years after the earth’s atmosphere filled … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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I just noticed

Posted on June 2, 2005 by acb

That the first blackbird starts singing at ten to four in the morning now. Who says insomnia can’t be fun? Continue reading →

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Book silly

Posted on June 1, 2005 by acb

As an apology living near a ridiculously small river, I feel I owe Rafe the answers to this test. Total number of books I’ve owned: shamingly small. Something around 5,000 at a guess, since I have never been able to … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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strange resemblances

Posted on May 29, 2005 by acb

I excuse myself by saying dyslexic about faces; and people think I am joking. But I am not. I find it enormously difficult to reconstruct faces in my imagination, or even to recognise them on those who are present; when … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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oh jesus fuck

Posted on May 25, 2005 by acb

I just spent four hours straight with Robert Trivers, one of the greatest biological theorists of our time. For two of them, I had a digital voice recorder going, with a new battery carefully inserted and all the old tracks … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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Mall thought

Posted on May 24, 2005 by acb

The central question for students of religion is this: is coca cola really sugared water? Continue reading →

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Travel notes

Posted on May 24, 2005 by acb

This is the way the world ends: in the small shelf devoted to Popular Science, at the bookshop in Terminal 3 at Heathrow, the Bible Code was shelved above Richard Dawkins’ latest, and the Celestine Prophecy below it. Otherwise some … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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Flight

Posted on May 21, 2005 by acb

Few postings for the next week; I shall be in Boston and similar places, profiling Robert Trivers. In the meantime, here’s a dove from yesterday evening, and a style sheet to go with it. Continue reading →

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But no bananas

Posted on May 18, 2005 by acb

For reasons unrelated to chickens, I have been looking through Hansard. I emerge entirely committed to a constitutional reform which would give greater powers to the House of Lords. In evidence, this opening statement in a debate: Baroness Masham of … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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Asparagus

Posted on May 18, 2005 by acb

I don’t know if this link will work from outside Flickr, but it leads to the filthiest vegetable picture I have ever seen. Louise will love it. Continue reading →

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