by Tom | Mar 9, 2010 | Reading
Maybe we should give this revision to mirror discipline a go?
by Tom | Mar 9, 2010 | Reading, Tech
Slightly overblown title, but there are good interviews with people you wouldn’t necessarily come across normally.
by Tom | Mar 9, 2010 | Reading, Science
DNA matches against the national database aren’t often used to solve crimes. Now 1 in 350 of crimes doesn’t seem high or low,really. I wonder how often DNA taken during an investigation is used? The figure in the article is that 33,000 (1 in 40)...
by Tom | Mar 9, 2010 | Business, Government, Reading, Science, Tech
Checklists in surgery should be mandated given the extraordinary error improvements they bring. The interesting question is where else checklist thinking can be used.
by Tom | Mar 8, 2010 | Reading, Tech
I hope Gelernter is right and we are in a relatively short phase of the developing internet where we care most about the now and less about the accretion of knowledge in our and others’ past. So in the future we might look at the stream of things that people...
by Tom | Mar 5, 2010 | Reading
Crazy but fun-looking festivals in Lerwick and Spain. Never heard of either of them.
