I have a few things to blog about, but will do my best to pace myself. Today I’ll have a whinge about a “study” (scare quotes intentional) from La Trobe University in Melbourne that purports to show that a high intake of coffee increases a person’s propensity to experience hallucinations. This has of course...
This is really interesting (if somewhat hard going): a fascinating discourse on why apes are indeed monkeys. (Hat tip to Gimpyblog for the link.) I’ve always said not, but I give in. Apes are monkeys… and so are we. Or in the words of Eddie Izzard: “You’re a fucking monkey, mate!”
I had an enjoyable chat this evening before dinner, with my 90 year old grandmother. Not any sort of stereotypical grandparent-ish chat; no doilies or tea, or Abe Simpson-esque reminiscing. Not at all. The catalyst for this evening’s chat was a Hubble calendar she had sitting around. We began to talk about the Hubble Deep...
You might well have heard – and seen the video for – the song “Miracles” by the Insane Clown Posse. When I first saw the vid (I forget where), I didn’t pay very close attention (it being a style of music I hate), and had a reasonably positive reaction to what seemed to be...
Last night I was watching an episode of Big Bang theory. At the start Sheldon was talking about teleportation, saying the problem is that the original person would be destroyed, then recreated at the destination. Sure, thought I, but that’s not the implication that has occurred to me when I’ve thought about this before. Yes,...
