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Choosing wine: a people-thing or a thing-thing? 24 Jun 2013 | 10:07 pm
Pic c/o Fulldorm.com Interesting post over at the Guardian about some research suggesting wine experts are not the best folk to turn to to help you choose wine. Couple of things here: 1. It's not t...
Suicide as a disease and the space between 24 May 2013 | 10:48 pm
Interesting piece in this week's New Scientist on the attempts by psychiatrists (particularly those with advanced neuromania) to explain suicidal behaviour through primarily biological means (in terms...
Teenage pregnancy and the HERD 21 May 2013 | 02:25 pm
Interesting piece here about what does and doesn't work to reduce teenage pregnancy in the UK - written from the perspective of the audience (or a recent graduate from teenage). However, one of the t...
MMR revisited 4 Apr 2013 | 03:07 pm
Source: NIH Very bad news today re the re-emergence of previously suppressed serious childhood diseases like measles in the UK - thanks to the middle-class mums who choose to ignore scientific eviden...
How long should a ghostbike be allowed to hang around? 3 Apr 2013 | 11:39 pm
We've long collected examples of cellotaphs and ghostbikes - those popular floral tributes to the fallen that populate so many streets here in the UK and in the US. I think they're particularly inter...
I copy, you copy, he/she/it copies 3 Apr 2013 | 11:17 pm
Source: flickr Nice piece today in the Standard (prompted by the British Council "The English Effect" exhibition) elaborates on one of the questions we explored last summer in the run up to my School...
Paleonostalgia 29 Mar 2013 | 05:49 pm
Really nice interview in New Scientist last week with evolutionary biologist Marlene Zuk about she calls "paleonostalgia" "You see this attitude in what can be referred to as "palaeo-nostalgia" – the...
All ears? Outsourcing the cognitive load 27 Mar 2013 | 07:52 pm
Source: sipseystreetirregulars.blogspot.com One of the brilliant things about our super social species is our ability not just to learn from other people but to outsource the cognitive load to those ...
Join a gang... 27 Mar 2013 | 06:12 pm
Really beautiful photographic archive on the New Yorker site of Bruce Davidson's Bobby's Book - a history of 1950s NYC gang, the Jokers. Like the man said,...join a gang, any gang... {See also...
Physicists as Celebs 27 Mar 2013 | 05:50 pm
Nice piece in this week's NS about a plan to use a prize to create celebrities of our best physicists ...all in order to engage the public more with the subject and with science in general. Which se...
