by Tom | Oct 14, 2010 | Reading
Just think, they shaved before they came up. Great that they took all the advice they were given: imagine death by candy bar. Miners Defy Dire Predictions on Fitness and Spirit http://nyti.ms/9QZoWM
by Tom | Oct 6, 2010 | Reading, Science
Cracking eye-tracking study. Your mileage may vary, but this is science. http://eyetrack.poynter.org/keys_01.html
by Tom | Oct 5, 2010 | Reading
Weak Ties, Twitter and Revolution has a useful caution on Gladwell’s article in the New Yorker. A 1973 paper found that tightly integrated groups needed weak ties to create real revolutions.
by Tom | Oct 5, 2010 | Government, Reading
I love that the Mash is starting to predict the future. Here, councils fail to buy enough road salt for winter. http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3138&Itemid=81
by Tom | Sep 29, 2010 | Personal, Reading
Gladwell argues that social revolutions can only happen in real life, not through social networks in Twitter, Facebook, and social activism. I’m not convinced one can compare the relatively small number of revolutions in the noughties with pre-social networking,...
by Tom | Sep 27, 2010 | Personal, Reading
Holiday reading accelerated a lot once we had left sunny Northumberland for even sunnier Crete and could roll out of bed into our own pool. Some crackers in there. The Thousand Autumns of Jacob De Zoet – Mitchell on great form, although I found the immortality...
