OK, now this is really fucked up, and frankly, *deeply* scary.

A German sociologist has been arrested under anti-terror laws on the grounds that his academic work uses lots of the same words as those used by a militant group in Berlin. And he might have met some of them, once, maybe ( Read more... )

A morning scan of today's science page on the Beeb brings me the following astonishing studies, brought to you by the power of the silly season. It's August, there's absolutely f-all happening in the news, but the poor buggers have to keep reporting *something*. This led to an excruciatingly funny end to the Today programme this morning, involving ( Read more... )

It's Monday morning and yet I am feeling quite bouncy. This is probably something to do with having finished off several projects last week, having had one paper published and another accepted by a journal, a chilled weekend involving a housewarming, a softfruit, hippies having taken over Platt Fields Park, lots of lazing about in the sunshine, and being ( Read more... )

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...for me is somewhat like doing one of those hideous huge complicated puzzles of a picture of a tree or something. You spend ages assembling the bugger, gettting bored, wondering away, coming back to it, figuring more bits out, until finally you think you've got something that looks about right ( Read more... )

( this is roughly how my work feels just now, barring the maths.. )

Weekend very good and productive, although I appear to have lost my voice as a result. Will write a fuller update later on, but I'm still a bit dead ATM...

For those of you of a writey/researchy/activisty type persuasion (I'm thinking particularly of purple_pen, plumsbitch, parallelgirl, xxxlibris, psi_lock, katyha... coo, there's loads of you - I'm sure there's others who'd be interested), I just ( Read more... )