… Marie Curie: the only person ever to win two Nobel prizes in two sciences. I am currently in examination hell, hence my diminished substantive contributions to the blog. I will be out of gaol on May 24 (last exam) and will then take a week or so off, but I’m afraid not much more than [...]
A real life study: Stephenson, G. R. (1967). ‘Cultural acquisition of a specific learned response among rhesus monkeys.’ In: Starek, D., Schneider, R., and Kuhn, H. J. (eds.), Progress in Primatology, Stuttgart: Fischer, pp. 279-288. [A gentle tip of the hat to Terje P] ———————————- Also: our viewing stats have gone fairly silly since Larvatus [...]
US tycoon Donald Trump has warned that wind farms could “completely end” tourism in Scotland and the country is “in effect committing financial suicide”. Mr Trump said he would not have built his golf course in the north east of Scotland if he had known about plans to install turbines off the coast there. He [...]
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Tagged "mad alex", Alex Salmond, Donald Trump, renewable energy, Scottish National Party, scottish parliament, wind power, wind turbine
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Scientists have produced a colossal picture of our Milky Way Galaxy, to reveal the detail of a billion stars. It is built from thousands of individual images acquired by two UK-developed telescopes operating in Hawaii and in Chile. Archived data from the project, known as the Vista Data Flow System, will be mined [...]
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Tagged a billion stars, astronomy, dr nick cross, eye candy du jour, mike read, milky way, photography, UK national astronomy meeting, UKIDSS/GPS sky survey, university of cambridge, university of edinburgh, vista data flow system
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Former US Vice-President Dick Cheney has had a heart transplant and is now recovering in hospital, his office has said. It said the surgery had been carried out on Saturday at the Inova Fairfax Hospital in Virginia. Mr Cheney, 71, has had heart problems for much of his adult life, suffering five heart attacks since [...]
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Tagged 9/11, america, Amnesty International, dick cheney, Guantanamo Bay, health, interrogation, iraq, iraq war, medicine, torture, US politics, US republican party, war on terror, washington, waterboarding
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February 23, 2012 – 11:39 pm
Photographer Mark Tipple uses an underwater camera to capture the “battle” between man and the power of ocean waves in Australia. His book, called the Underwater Project, shows surfers, bodyboarders and swimmers diving below the surf to avoid being pounded. The Telegraph has two galleries of Mark Tipple’s work, or you can go to THE [...]
February 4, 2012 – 8:12 pm
Like most people, I have donated to my fair share of charities, and have also (in a professional capacity) provided legal advice to a couple. I must admit, however, that I haven’t paid a great deal of attention to ‘the charitable sector’ the way some people do. Of course, I’ve periodically heard dark rumours that [...]
January 15, 2012 – 7:53 am
There’s nothing quite like getting up first thing in the morning to discover service documents sitting in your hallway (or, if you’re in Australia or the US, poking out of your mailbox). This is what has happened to Australian political and skeptical blogger Jennifer Wilson (her blog is ‘No Place for Sheep’) yesterday. I have [...]
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Tagged Article 8 ECHR, Brian Harradine, Campbell v MGN Ltd, Christopher Hitchens, clive hamilton, Collective Shout, defamation, God's Police, Jennifer Wilson, Jonathan Haidt, Lenah Game Meats v ABC, Leslie Cannold, Melinda Tankard Reist, No Place for Sheep, Rachel Hills, Russell Blackford, Spinifex Press
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December 30, 2011 – 11:19 am
It does, you know. Really. That we have to be reminded of this now — in (almost) 2012 — is a sad testament to the failure of not only science education but something rather more old fashioned: the public health campaign. Remember those? Newsreels of children lining up for their needles, posters enjoining people to [...]
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Tagged #StopAVN, #woodford, Alan Marshall, Australian Skeptics, Chrys Stevenson, Clementine Ford, F. A. Hayek, Graham Young, kylie sturgess, life expectancy, meryl dorey, Phil Plait, Professor Andreas Suhrbier, public health, steven pinker, Stop the AVN, token skeptic, vaccination, Woodford Folk Festival
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