by Tom | Mar 26, 2007 | Science
It was interesting to see the Indy come out for prohibition of cannabis. I don’t have a problem with their changing their mind on whether the drug is harmful or not (although badscience seems to debunk this pretty effectively), but flipping on prohibition seems...
by Tom | Mar 26, 2007 | Government
Confirmed that Gus O’Donnell has written to smaller departments pointing them towards DWP and HMRC for their finance and HR needs.
by Tom | Mar 26, 2007 | Science
I wonder if the good burghers of Navarra think that their wind farms ruin the scenery? Interesting that they have over 70% of energy from renewables and that Spain recently had its biggest day of wind energy–at 27% the largest contributor to the national...
by Tom | Mar 26, 2007 | Business
Lovely idea from Mumbai. You get an Rs200 fine for travelling without an Rs8 ticket. This is sufficiently high to deter most of the 6m people travelling each day. Given that there is no system able to check everyone, random checks are the order of the day. Along comes...
by Tom | Mar 26, 2007 | Science
How a tiny subset of the brain is being modeled on a serious supercomputer. I love the idea that it started working spontaneously. Put a sufficiently sophisticated system together and you get thought-like activity? Who needs a creator?
by Tom | Mar 22, 2007 | Science
Interesting piece I read today having just worn coat and suit for the first time this year to get through the cold sleety snow in London:Up, and it snowing this morning a little, which from the mildness ofthe winter and the weather beginning to be hot and the summer...
by Tom | Mar 22, 2007 | Reading
It sounds like commuters are much the same all over: Dubner asks why not walk 200 yards to a bus stop up the route to raise your chance of sitting down? For my own part, why not walk ten minutes across the park rather than going to the crowded mainline station?My...
by Tom | Mar 22, 2007 | Reading
Looks like China is moving to install something like property rights. This is a major change (and the left wing ideologues hate it). Granted, it is no where near a functional democracy (assuming that’s a good thing), but it has to be healthier.
by Tom | Mar 22, 2007 | Reading
I still don’t think this is real, but I can’t see how it is faked. I also love the l33t comment on Londonist (unsure as to whether it is appropriate for this blog). It appears to be in Chad.
by Tom | Mar 22, 2007 | Personal
Caroline saw one of these on the motorway. Thankfully I was driving.
