by Tom | Oct 30, 2012 | Reading, Science
Evolution of lactose tolerance Fascinating read: we used to turn off lactose tolerance to avoid sibling rivalry. Then suddenly we didn’t (in Europe, at least).
by Tom | Oct 19, 2012 | Reading
Julian Baggini – A taste of the divine. Tries hard to understand why we can, rightly, treat cooking as an art form, and can justify spending extraordinary amounts of money on it. The point about the theatre (which could also be presentation, service rather than...
by Tom | Oct 19, 2012 | Reading, Science
Brilliant discussion of human athleticism: we evolved for long distance endurance, which is why we can occasionally beat horses in a race and couldn’t even outrun a sheep. I had no idea about the musculoskeletal adaptations in the head to help gaze fixation...
by Tom | Oct 18, 2012 | Personal, Reading
Some intriguing thoughts on causing offence and being offended. Ultra-orthodox Jewish men who shun contact with women they are not married to are being offered “modesty glasses” which blur their view in such a way that they do not fall over and yet they...
by Tom | Oct 18, 2012 | Reading
it is forbidden for him to say that the UCI, McQuaid and Verbruggen “have concealed cases of doping, received money for doing so, have accepted money from Lance Armstrong to conceal a doping case, have protected certain racing cyclists, concealed cases of doping,...
by Tom | Oct 18, 2012 | IT, Reading
Patterns for Research in Machine Learning is a slightly formal title for some excellent hints on how to code and think about coding in pretty well any language you chose.
