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I hope you are all having a lovely break. My PC stopped working the day before Christmas Eve – I don’t think it’s irretrievable, probably to do with power on/off functions.  However, although I do have my kindly donated ancient iBook and my daughters’ PCs somehow I find it hard to blog – like losing [...]

ok, ok, I give in, I’m wonderful

Remember the Master’s dissertation I handed in in October?  I got my mark today – 70%!  That means that I might just get a distinction overall.  I’ll have to wait till the exam board in January to find out.

some days you get the bear

Ain’t life strange?
I found out this morning that my colleague and I have had a bid for a £5000 research grant accepted!  It’s to turn the critical thinking tool we invented into a web-based resource and CD-ROM.

… and some days the bear gets you

I’ve had a truly awful week.
The first terrible thing that happened wasn’t something that happened to me, but to a lovely friend of mine.  She had a baby and it died the next day – there’d been no indication that there was any problem so it was particularly shocking.  I can’t really think of any [...]

alternative meme

 Never one to keep my fingers quiet, I responded to a blog comment over at de-conversion.com.  Basically the original commenter suggested that only Christianity could answer the questions he posed and challenged atheists and secular humanists to answer them.  I seem to have been the only one to have done so but I thought they’d [...]

Story of Stuff

It’s too late to write a long entry but I just wanted to share this brilliant little film and website which summarises consumerist economy and makes the case for sustainability in an extraordinarily accessible way.  An easy way to access the film is via idyllopus’ blog where she has included a Youtube embedded version so [...]

feed your head

There’s been a story in the press over the past couple of days about an experiment that shows that young chimpanzees have a greater ability to memorise visual data than humans. This is variously touted as evidence of ’superior’ powers or greater intelligence than previously considered. While I accept that it means they [...]

by popular demand

Here is the letter from Michael Howard.  As frequently occurs – I have been given an involuntary sex change.  You should get a bigger version by clicking on it.