Just before I went to the Hay Literary Festival, I made a very quick ascent of Lord Hereford’s Knob. Time well spent, despite the lure of bookshops and country pubs. I’m suffering from some form of virus at the moment, most likely “man flu“, so enjoy this gallery I’ve uploaded of my trip up [...]
Late last night I got back from a trip to the Hay Festival where one of my favourite writers, Christopher Hitchens, was due to speak in a number of debates. One of the debates was about blasphemy, which Norman Geras has covered. The one I was lucky enough to participate in was The [...]
Orac has a link to an excellent pseudoscience resource. Enjoy.
A while back I was going to write a post about the history of Zyklon B, who invented it, who made it, and who supplied it – as well as refuting Holocaust deniers claims about Zyklon B. Sadly, I never had time, but did manage to make this PDF version of the [...]
Academics in Universities are fighting against plagiarism, as well as students buying essays of dubious quality. Now publishers are starting to use plagiarism detection software on papers submitted to journals as the cut’n’paste culture works it way up the system.
Software used to catch student cheats may soon be employed by journal publishers to help [...]
Here’s a pleasant street scene.
Aside from the dirty needles, syringes full of blood, pipes, and condoms, the eagle-eyed may spot a empty Snickers wrapper. Sure sign that this person needs some serious lifestyle advice.
Norm says, “There have got to be bad things you can do while riding a bicycle.”
Well, I’m not saying my distant relative did bad things, but he was in a regiment of cycling soldiers in India and a brief history of the bicycle in warfare shows they were used in the Nazi invasion of Poland. [...]
Dr Thomas Stuttaford, of The Times, has had his hands slapped over an article about asthma treatment:
The article “A complement for asthma sufferers†by Dr Thomas Stuttaford published in The Times of 31 March 2005 was drawn to the attention of the MHRA.
The article made reference to only one named product and failed to [...]
There’s a nice short article about Grapefruit juice in Prescriber this month, unfortunately the on-line version does not include the tables in the printed version. As it is written by editors of Stockley’s Drug Interactions it is fairly authoritive.
It does however miss one aspect of this interaction that has vexed me for several years.
Why [...]