by Tom | Sep 11, 2014 | Hong Kong / China, Reading
According to a Reuters source this is how China views its relationship with Hong Kong: “The mainland has been too nice to Hong Kong,” said the first source with leadership ties. “The relationship between the center and Hong Kong is not one between...
by Tom | Sep 11, 2014 | Business, Reading, Science
Humans are rubbish at time management and one of the reasons is our poor ability to understand how we make choices on short and long scales. The example in the piece is choosing a meal two weeks ahead versus two minutes ahead: we go healthy until we actually come to...
by Tom | Aug 20, 2014 | Personal
It is around 20 months (too long) since I was last in the UK. London-Shropshire-Willex wedding-London. First public outing is at the Market Porter on Friday 22nd night. All welcome. Â
by Tom | Aug 20, 2014 | Reading, Science
Parachute use to prevent death and major trauma related to gravitational challenge: systematic review of randomised controlled trials Lovely piece in the BMJ. Thanks to @charlesarthur for the RT. Results We were unable to identify any randomised controlled trials of...
by Tom | Aug 20, 2014 | General
http://www.retronaut.com/2014/04/hand-coloured-images-of-japan/ a) Retronaut! b) Lovely pictures of Japan. Hand colouring is great.
by Tom | Aug 20, 2014 | Business, Reading
Must read for any print journalists and for any ad-supported business. Ad money moves around, often catastrophically. Try to imagine a world where the future of print is unclear: Maybe 25 year olds will start demanding news from yesterday, delivered in an unshareable...
by Tom | Aug 18, 2014 | Hong Kong / China, Personal, View
I find this music properly hard to read (musically: not solely because I only know 10% of the characters). It may be that the text and notes are in such perfect alignment: I am used to sight-reading with them offset (the note is almost always smaller than the...
by Tom | Aug 12, 2014 | Personal, View
One of the less good things about 10-15cm of rain today is that our lovely lawn becomes pretty much a paddling pool. The picture doesn’t do it justice, but it’s an 2cm deep. Shows the drainage works, though.
by Tom | Aug 12, 2014 | Science, Tech, View
First-person Hyperlapse Videos. Very impressive post-production technique for making everything shot on a GoPro look scarily smooth.
by Tom | Aug 8, 2014 | Personal, Reading
Two very sad but interesting perspectives on society’s treatment of women. I’m all in favour of reclaiming words* that have some negative connotations . Can we do it with feminism? (*Aside: my take on “bossy” is that we should call boys it if...
