September 2010
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This Marriage
May these vows and this marriage be blessed.
May it be sweet milk,
this marriage, like wine and halvah.
May this marriage offer fruit and shade
like the date palm.
May this marriage be full of laughter,
our every day a day in paradise.
May this marriage be a sign of compassion,
a seal of happiness here and hereafter.
May this marriage have a fair face and a good name,
an omen as welcomes...
Los Angeles Times: First clinical trial involving... →
Geron’s breakthrough cell therapy, GRNOPC1, is finally entering clinical trials following a long and traumatic development. So, if you’re planning on having a thoracic spinal cord injury in the next few months make sure it happens in striking distance of Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine or the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago. Patients (all 10 of them)...
“In another fifty years, I wonder if we’ll look back … and marvel at how...”
– Fraser Speirs - The Accoutrements of Computing
HMRC letters target taxpayers with Swiss bank... →
BBC News:
Hundreds of wealthy UK taxpayers have been sent letters by HM Revenue & Customs over possible large-scale tax evasion, the BBC has learned. It is understood HMRC has acquired a list of high net-worth individuals with accounts at the Swiss division of HSBC. The list was stolen by an employee and passed to the taxman by the French authorities. The bank is not accused of any...
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To Provence and Paris
Tomorrow I fly south to Provence. I’m meeting a few friends from The Vintage Club1 to hit the vineyards of Côtes de Provence, Cassis and Bandol, with hopefully a blast up to Châteauneuf-du-Pape. The plan is thus: Swim, drink, eat, drink, swim, drink, eat, repeat.
After seven days, and with a thoroughly marinaded liver, I then blast up to Paris on the TGV for a few days staying with an old...
“Science is what you can get away with.”
– Zen Faulkes