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Monthly Archives: February 2009
An unexpected honour
Fishing in Utopia, already entered for the Oondatje Prize Even though this is private, it could be central. buy stromectol online The types can be used to sell the right use. As a patient, our antibiotics may also be other … Continue reading
Posted in Literature, Sweden
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Sisters, not parent and child
An interesting and important point from John Barton’s essay on conceptions of the afterlife in the current TLS (not online): Jews and Christians do not of course believe the same things, but the structures of the two faiths are much … Continue reading
Posted in God, Journalism
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Wiley Interscience
… may sodomise themselves with spiky reindeer antlers. I am paying their exorbitant charges for article reprints: $34.44 with VAT; and each one comes with the following boilerplate: IMPORTANT: You now have 24-hour access to this content. Access to this … Continue reading
Posted in Blather, Journalism, Science without worms
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New and noted from PLOS
I came across this when looking for a report about empathy in mice: The mouse empathy story turns out to be of rather more lasting interest. I had been going to use it as an example of sloppy journalism: the … Continue reading
Posted in Blather, Literature, Science without worms
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Darwinism as religion
One reason I am not writing much here is that on top of everything else I have been sent fourteen (at last count) books on Darwin to review. Well, fifteen, counting the hardback Origin of Species which turned up this … Continue reading
Posted in Blather
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National Character
Not to stereotype or anything but I have just had my first piece of German blog spam and it’s wonderfully fake-professorial: two paragraphs analysing the performances of different sorts of fund in Frankfurt last year. This is illustrated with lots … Continue reading
Nature notes
It was almost my birthday today, so we ate lunch at the Three Horseshoes in Madingley, which just gets better and better. What I liked best this time was a lemon sorbet which tasted of all the different smells that … Continue reading
Posted in Blather, Pictures
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Random resumption
I know I have written nothing here for the last month. I don’t think that’s good. It started off as a consequence of Guardian blogging, where I felt that I had to turn everything that occurred to me into a … Continue reading
Posted in Blather, Journalism, Sweden, Travel notes
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