by Tom | Feb 25, 2010 | Science
Lovely Mash on homeopathy:The report could see government funding into the not-treatment being stripped back to £1 as according to homeopathic theory it will have the same effect as giving them £100 million.Let’s hope the Simon Singh appeal goes...
by Tom | Feb 24, 2010 | Personal
Apparently people just leave Chatroulette on during parties to see who comes along. I can’t even bring myself to fire it up! For those who don’t know, it is online chat with random people with a big next button so that they (or you) can move on if bored or...
by Tom | Feb 24, 2010 | Reading, Science
Useful to read some challenge to thinking, but always critical to weigh new point evidence against the full set.The contention from Stanford is that some farmers may find increasing crop prices beneficial. And this could well be true, just as the Southern UK should...
by Tom | Feb 24, 2010 | Business
Helpful myth debunker: UK manufacturing is twice the value it was after World War II. The article also answers the obvious contextual question: how much has GDP increased in the same time frame / what is the trend manufacturing as a proportion of total output? The...
by Tom | Feb 18, 2010 | Reading
Nice graph showing how close the top three were in the men’s downhill, and how Bode was nailing it until the last split.Separately, they started showing a great superposition of Lindsey Vonn and Julia Mancuso (I think) but I haven’t seen it again....
