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)....
by Tom | Nov 28, 2009 | Reading, Science
Two things we should teach everyone:Â the nocebo effect is a very strong version of priming. How is it that people can get symptoms from a sugar pill? Because their brain is doing some clever / weird stuff. How is it that telling people they are wearing knock-off...
by Tom | Nov 27, 2009 | Reading
Some great Daily Mashes England to uninvent cricket. Climate emails change climate change. “This is the smoking iceberg that fires a polar bear of truth between the eyes of hysteria and communism”. Police creating army of super villains. Drinkers abandon...
by Tom | Nov 20, 2009 | Reading
Environmentalism with better music? Nice thinking on what religion needs to do to remain relevant and grow.
by Tom | Nov 19, 2009 | Reading
2009 UN World Drug report in pictures . Depressing photos: many from Mexico are simply incredible. Real life is definitely keeping ahead of the movies, and not in a good way.
