Friday, September 29, 2006

Odd court case of the day

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How two Roman soldiers 'did battle' in bath house - Britain - Times Online

Maybe too much emphasis on asteroids

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Impact from the Deep -- Strangling heat and gases emanating from the earth and sea, not asteroids, most likely caused several ancient mass e...
Thursday, September 28, 2006

About that NIE report

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TigerHawk TigerHawk short take on the leaked NIE report makes is very good. He's a smart commentator. I would add this: surely most vo...

Painters beware

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ScienceDaily: Solvent Exposure Linked To Birth Defects In Babies Of Male Painters From the above report: The study focused on questionnaires...

About drugs policy in Sweden

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News.com.au Gotcha Blog This is an interesting story on the relative success of Sweden in dealing with illicit drugs: ...Sweden moved down t...

This is a worry

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BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | Organ sales 'thriving' in China This article is about buying transplant organs in China. Note that at the...
Wednesday, September 27, 2006

Flying and greenhouse gas

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Is flying really evil? from Guardian Unlimited: Travelog There is a bit of a push going on, especially in Europe, to make flying much more e...

On swearing in Japanese

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The Japan Times Online - Be warned: we're talking rather rude Japanese As you can see from the above article, swearing in Japanese seems...
Tuesday, September 26, 2006

Freakonomics looks at doctors handwashing

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Selling Soap - New York Times A fun read from the NYT about the famous Cedars-Sinai Medical Centres efforts to increase doctors' hand wa...

Jim Holt on the problems of string theory

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The New Yorker: The Critics: A Critic At Large Jim Holt is an excellent science writer. (His old articles in Slate are well worth looking u...

The difficulties of anti drug programs

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A White House drug deal gone bad. By Ryan Grim - Slate Magazine Better late than never. I missed this a few weeks ago, but the article talk...

Poor rats

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Future Mars astronauts have radiation on their minds - space - 25 September 2006 - New Scientist Space The likely serious problems with cosm...

Bad news for Iran?

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BBC NEWS | Middle East | Israel 'holds secret Saudi talks' Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has held an unprecedented meeting with...

Barry Cohen's lunch with Mark Latham

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Barry Cohen: Prepare to be blessed with a new Marksism fantasy | Opinion | The Australian Don't you love it when former supporters of La...
Monday, September 25, 2006

Stadiums and storms

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News in Science - Sports stadiums may focus lightning damage - 20/09/2006 Some time ago I promised my story of stupid behaviour in storms. ...

Fiddling with the atmosphere

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Fake volcanoes could combat global warming | COSMOS magazine When it says "fake volcanoes" I'm not sure exactly what mechanism...

Stephen Hayes on Saddam & al Qaeda

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How Bad Is the Senate Intelligence Report? See above for a very lengthy and detailed Stephen Hayes article criticising the Senate report whi...

Mark Steyn on the UN follies

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U.N. shows why it's incapable of reform An amusing and interesting Steyn column on recent appearances at the UN. A funny line about Chom...

Skepticism on Netroots

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TIME.com: The Netroots Hit Their Limits -- Oct. 2, 2006 -- Page 1 This article expressing scepticism on how far the Netroots movement in the...

For those with an interest in the 60's

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For Pete's sake - Sunday Times - Times Online This is an extract from a new book by the former wife of English comedian Peter Cook. Lots...