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As I took a seat on the tube on my way home last night, I had to move a copy of the London Lite on to the next empty seat, and my companion asked me if anything interesting was happening in the world.

I flicked through the free paper and said that the most pressing things going on in the world was that a celebrity is dead, other celebrities aren't ( Read more... )

You will all be pleased to know that back in the NHM, Ford the laptop is working just as he did last week; he's not working very well, but I have access to my thesis and a 17" screen and decent sized keyboard to write it on, so that's good enough for me. It's backing up to the college Citrix neighbourhood right now, just in case. AND I have a ( Read more... )

There is, apparently, a meme going around among various USian pundits of certain political affiliations  - and financial interest in the Insurance industry, in some cases - that the National Health Service is evil and murderous and everyone in the UK is dying of death. In my self-inturned little world I've only really come to be aware of this meme ( Read more... )

I'm trying to train myself off using words like 'evil' to describe things rather than actions, and especially not to use strong words like that in hyperbole. So maybe I can't say that "AIDShealing.org" is an evil website, but after some thought on the matter, I am quite convinced that I can break my blogging silence and state categorically that I ( Read more... )

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  Somewhat Stretchy : Make Your Own Catsuit Sewing Pattern
  
  No idea if this is the best place to go for a free catsuit pattern, but it'll do me. Now, to source some fabric.
  
  (tags: crafts)
  
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  A Broken Trust: Lessons from the Vaccine/Autism Wars
  
  PLoS isn't always the best source for actual peer ( Read more... )

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  Letters to Our Daughters Project
  
  A reminder that this project exists, and is amazing.
  
  (tags: feminism science)
  
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  Boys Talk About How Girls Should Talk About Science...
  
  Not just science either. Men like to tell women how to engage in feminism discussion more than they like to engage ( Read more... )

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  MMR Vaccine: Daily Mail Exposes Secret Government Brainwashing Plot!
  
  I've recently found the Lay Scientist blog, and it makes me happy in my soul.
  
  (tags: misinformation health)
  

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  The Simon Singh Verdict
  
  So wait; in a libel case, the judge can change the meaning of what the defendant said, and make him defend that untrue meaning? Bollocks
  
  (tags: science misinformation)
  

My usual response when some sickness hits the news is to roll my eyes and change the channel, telling myself it has little to do with me and will probably amount to nothing and it's not worth worrying about. Earlier this week - because the alternative is thinking about dinosaurs, which just goes to show that priorities really get skewed when you're ( Read more... )