Monthly Archives: May 2005

strange resemblances

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

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

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

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Travel notes

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

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

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:”:http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld200405/ldhansrd/pdvn/lds05/text/50323-02.htm bq. *Baroness Masham … Continue reading Continue reading

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Asparagus

I don’t know if “this link”:http://www.flickr.com/photos/britta_585/13657485/in/pool-fotolog_world/ 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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Mail science

Some readers may have been puzzled by the %(loony)<mailscience>% tags I put on the previous entry. I hope the picture below, from Monday’s _Daily Mail,_ will spare me typing a longer explanation. Continue reading

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The formula for everything

Some wonderful properties have been discovered in the eye of a small and poisonous jellyfish, and you want “the straight version,”:http://pharyngula.org/index/weblog/comments/jellyfish_eyes/ PZ Myers has it. But what struck me first was a description of the jellyfish from the lead researcher, … Continue reading Continue reading

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worse than Biggles

Anyone who cares about Christianity and literature should be following Fred Clark’s weekly deconstruction of the _Left Behind_ novels, and “this week’s entry”:http://slacktivist.typepad.com/slacktivist/2005/05/lb_accidental_h.html is a classic. bq.. _Left Behind_ is filled with moments of accidental honesty in which L&J admit … Continue reading Continue reading

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