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Yearly Archives: 2007
Any Swedes out there?
According to Wikipedia’s perfectly fascinating article on Finnishisms in Swedish, both Semla, (a sort of bun) and dyna (a cushion) are Finnishisms in place of more common and “proper” Swedish terms. Yet both words were in everyday use in my … Continue reading Continue reading
Posted in Sweden
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Bastards and condoms
It’s not often that you find Damian Thompson and PZ Myers singing in the same choir but they are both shocked by the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Maputo who has claimed not only that condoms don’t prevent AIDS but that … Continue reading Continue reading
Posted in God
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Angela Lambert
My friend Angela Lambert died early yesterday morning. She had been horribly ill for a long time; had indeed sent a message to all her friends in April saying “Goodbye”, so I was able to tease her about missing a … Continue reading Continue reading
Posted in Literature
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notes from fishing porn and elsewhere
Last summer my friend Christer pressed on me a book of fishing porn by Gunnar Westrin, which contains some wonderful photographs, though I can’t find any on his web site. I learnt from it some interesting things about grayling; also … Continue reading Continue reading
Posted in Trouty things
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Dawkins and Midgley, from comments
Jeremy Ahouse writes: Our host points us to Dawkins’ unburying the hatchet in a recent post. Andrew himself admirably covered this episode between Midgley, Dawkins and Mackie (7, Chapter 5) from the late 70s-early 80s. For fun I reread those … Continue reading Continue reading
Posted in Science without worms
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Dawkins, Midgley, disfiguring vanity
I see on Pharyngula that Richard Dawkins has claimed that Mary Midgley confessed to never reading the Selfish Gene before reviewing it in Philosophy. This is untrue, whether or not he believes it. When he first told it me, in, … Continue reading Continue reading
Posted in Science without worms
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More animals
Revisiting the walk under the flightpath — for there is at this time of year a stretch of about half a mile of almost continuous blackberry bushes, and it’s a shame that they are not as good as the ones … Continue reading Continue reading
Posted in Blather
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Rafe Coburn nails citizen journalism
Yesterday I read that on Friday, President Bush sat down with a group of “milbloggers” to discuss how things are going in Iraq, and more importantly, get his version of the truth out to the public without its being filtered … Continue reading Continue reading
Posted in Journalism
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Walkies
We set out yesterday to walk from Thaxted to Chickney Church without a map. I got most of the route right, which means there were only two wrong turns — and, in fact, both of them are marked as perfectly … Continue reading Continue reading
Posted in Blather
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I can die now
I have been quoted in Language Log. This is like being reviewed in Nature: it involves a demonstration that there are important lacunae in my knowledge of sex. More from the department of the bleeding obvious as it comes in. Continue reading
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