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An American view of british Conservativism
Fri, 9 May 2008 06:06:32 -0700 (PDT)
NYT
May 9, 2008
Op-Ed Columnist
The Conservative Revival
By DAVID BROOKS
For years, American and British politics were in sync. Reagan came in
roughly the same time as Thatcher, and Clinton?s Third Way approach
mirrored Blair?s. But the British conservatives never had a Gingrich
revolution in the 1990s ...
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The English
Fri, 9 May 2008 13:24:26 +0200
According to the latest Rough Guide edition:
England is a nation of "overweight, alcopop-swilling, sex- and
celebrity-obsessed TV addicts".
Sounds pretty accurate to me, although there might be a couple of other
suitable, equally complimentary descriptives that could be added ;-)
Article on the BBC site:
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The Platypus
Thu, 8 May 2008 01:25:44 -0700 (PDT)
This article may be of interest:
Platypus proves even odder than scientists thought
Ian Sample, science correspondent
The Guardian, Thursday May 8 2008 Article history
A DNA study found the creatures to be a mix of mammal, bird and
reptile with, even more strangely, 10 sex chromosomes.
At first dismiss ...
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Dutch association against quackery, and genetic testing
Wed, 7 May 2008 19:05:05 -0700 (PDT)
I'm much impressed that this organisation is working hard against
instances of it.
http://www.bmj.com/cgi/eletters/336/7649/853
Interestingly the current supply of genetic tests to people seems a
prime candidate for exposure as quackery. I think that this article
makes some interesting points:
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BMJ 2008 ...
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Re: Nice point
Wed, 7 May 2008 18:51:48 -0700 (PDT)
On May 7, 9:56?pm, Dave Smith <da...@dsmith60.wanadoo.co.uk> wrote:
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> I haven't got anything new to say. ?We ran over many of these
> arguments back in November 2002. ?The thread started out as 'Cuba
> Crisis 1962' and was changed to 'Chance'. ?I raised the 'half life'
> issue and Lance produced some 'heavy' ...
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Re: Nice point
Wed, 7 May 2008 12:56:00 -0700 (PDT)
On 7 May, 02:19, Peter Brooks <Peter.H.M.Bro...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On May 6, 10:25?pm, Dave Smith <da...@dsmith60.wanadoo.co.uk> wrote:> On 5 May, 05:27, Peter Brooks <Peter.H.M.Bro...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > > How can an event be independent of all other events though?
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> > I tend to assume that every event ha ...
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Re: Nice point
Tue, 6 May 2008 18:19:16 -0700 (PDT)
On May 6, 10:25?pm, Dave Smith <da...@dsmith60.wanadoo.co.uk> wrote:
> On 5 May, 05:27, Peter Brooks <Peter.H.M.Bro...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > How can an event be independent of all other events though?
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> I tend to assume that every event has a cause, whether or not I know
> what the cause is. ?However, I don' ...
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Re: Nice point
Tue, 6 May 2008 13:25:15 -0700 (PDT)
On 5 May, 05:27, Peter Brooks <Peter.H.M.Bro...@gmail.com> wrote:
> How can an event be independent of all other events though?
I tend to assume that every event has a cause, whether or not I know
what the cause is. However, I don't see how such an assumption could
be proved.
Dave ...
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The long and the short of behavioral statistics: A link to
depression?
Mon, 5 May 2008 05:44:19 -0700 (PDT)
You just move like a mouse, or do so abnormally like a mutant mouse
The brain is no longer a mysterious black box. Elucidation of the
human genome
is having a profound impact on the understanding of brain function in
health and
disease. However, genes cannot be systematically manipulated in
humans, and this
i ...
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Atomic meanings/words and the dictionary
Mon, 5 May 2008 05:32:08 -0700 (PDT)
Decoding the dictionary: Study suggests lexicon evolved to fit in the
brain
The latest edition of the Oxford English Dictionary boasts 22,000
pages of
definitions. While that may seem far from succinct, new research
suggests the
reference manual is meticulously organized to be as concise as
possible - a
form ...
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