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      • The Smell of Danger: Another study of the Blindlingly Obvious
        03/31/08
        I had an odd sense of deja vu when reading the headline Human noses 'can detect danger' . Didn't Gospodin Ivan Petrovic Pavlov work all that out all that stuff about conditioned/conditional reflexes back in the 1890/1900's?

        So I looked at the abstract on the Scie

      • Easter Snow: Devant le Deluge
        03/24/08
        First an earthquake, now a White Easter, if I were superstitious, I should be expecting some further meteoro- geo- or otherological event to be coming up soon.

        The snowy countryside is certainly pretty...

        ..but maybe it could presage the inundation of the low-lying lands by

      • 20-20 Hindsight: who needs it?
        03/20/08
        I have recently been reading "Plundering the Public Sector" by David Craig and Richard Brooks, and now halfway through have been getting more and more irritated with the adversarial tone of the book, and its tendency to shower blame everywhere in unequal amounts.

        UK Public Secto

      • From Antiques to Comedy Electronics
        03/10/08
        Horncastle in Lincolnshire is quite well-known for its antiques shops where you can filch through piles of broken crockery, dusty books, rusty buckets and dead peoples sheets.

        It is less well-known as a venue for comedy electronics. However appearances can be deceptive, as indeed I dis

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