by Tom | Nov 30, 2009 | Science
Trailblazing is a great new resource from the Royal Society, starting with the pioneering experiments in the late seventeenth century that started to make clear how the body actually worked and showing that the institution has remained influential to the present...
by Tom | Nov 30, 2009 | Government, Science
“Britain faces return to Victorian levels of poverty”: is a slightly pessimistic look at the good work that has been done on levels of child and pensioner poverty. However, the lesson that universal benefits redistribute more to the poorest than targeted...
by Tom | Nov 30, 2009 | Reading
Females more sociable? Well we knew this anyway, but interesting that it is duplicated on the more sociable networking sites (indeed, there are often more females) rather than the more geeky ones.
by Tom | Nov 30, 2009 | Personal, Reading
Lots of excellent commentary on the controversial clause 14 (which creates a strict liability offence for paying for sex with a trafficked prostitute, regardless of the punter’s knowledge) on the Lords of the blog site. Exaggeration of...
by Tom | Nov 30, 2009 | Business, Reading, Science
Lots of exciting things going on in the food world: I read about Incredible Edible in the Indy at first, but it clearly is making waves. And secondly, we are now really close to getting in vitro meat production to the eatable level (of course not at scale, yet)....
