April 2010
23 posts
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“Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.”
– Buckminster Fuller
Apr 30th
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“Faith is holding on to things your reason has once accepted, in spite of your...”
– C.S. Lewis Via The Endeavour where John D. Cook describes the requirement of faith to believe in Tuesdays, that men walked on the moon, the Endurance Expedition, various mathematical theorems, and finally God.
Apr 30th
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Listen Locus iste a Deo factus est, inaestimabile...
Apr 29th
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“Creativity and inspiration are when you see an accident and recognise its value”
– Geoff Nicholson, inventor of the Post-it note. “Happy 30th birthday, Post-it notes” | The Guardian
Apr 28th
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“Struggling with these twelve notes and musical instruments, it’s not so...”
– Henri Gorecki
Apr 20th
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“I love science, and it pains me to think that so many are terrified of the...”
– Robert Sapolsky, neuroscientist and author (via @sciencegoddess)
Apr 19th
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chupie-deactivated20100505 asked: I really like how your cv looks on your blog.

Now for my question.

When you go to London, do you find it scary to take the escalators down into the tube? Or is it just tourists (or perhaps only me) that find them scary? They seem to be at a 90 degree angle.
Apr 19th
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TEDxCam
On Saturday I had the pleasure of attending TEDxCam at the Cambridge Union Society. As expected from the TED brand it was a diverse event both in terms of speakers and audience. The Union debating chamber provided a beautiful backdrop for some great talks. A few words on, and from, each of the speakers: Steve O’Rahilly “The history of science is an unfolding story of human...
Apr 19th
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Apr 14th
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Apr 12th
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“They’re like those guys who come up to you at “networking” events and tell you...”
– Marco: The Mechanized Madness of Cuil’s Cpedia I had exactly this experience this week at LRMN with a chap who was insistent that stem cells and “magnets” (he couldn’t elaborate beyond this) were going to revolutionise the cosmetics industry.
Apr 12th
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“Isn’t it bad enough they have the sunshine, the terminally cute wombat,...”
–  Simon Schama, discussing a recent poll suggesting that one in four New Zealanders are in favour of cashing in the country’s independence and become instead, the seventh state of the Australian commonwealth, and fully a half of the polled want to begin serious debate about it.
Apr 11th
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Apr 10th
Apr 10th
So, 6th May it is. →
gooneruk: I am not looking forward to the next 30 days of news coverage. Good luck to anyone trying to find out what’s going on outside of Britain from the newspapers… This is why I’ll mostly be getting my television news fix from France 24 and Al Jazeera English for the next few weeks.
Apr 6th
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“The English people believes itself to be free; it is gravely mistaken; it is...”
– Jean-Jacques Rousseau (via The Guardian
Apr 6th
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Apr 4th
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Apr 4th
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Apr 1st
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March 2010
18 posts
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“He loved three things alone: White peacocks, evensong, Old maps of America. ...”
–  Anna Akhmatova
Mar 31st