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Category: Commentary
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When Galileo challenged religious orthodoxy with science, he was shown the rack. When Prof. David Nutt did it, he was merely shown the door. So that’s progress then. I don’t normally use this blog to promote Chalkface products, but I think I might be permitted a small boast on this occasion. We have by policy…
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I’m not in complete agreement with the definitions here, but I do broadly agree with the sentiments expressed. Look out for the lovely juxtaposition of the Socrates quote and the “Fire extinguisher inside building” sign. [Update: I found one source that attributes that quote to Plutarch, and another that says it was Plato. So it…
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Last month, I used swine flu as a test-case for Wolfram|Alpha. This month, with my next-door neighbour’s school already closed due to the ‘flu, I’m getting more concerned about the pandemic itself. Here are the charts. You can see from the shape that the previous straight line has now become an exponential. Notice how the…
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Nielsen (famous mainly for collating TV viewing stats) have just launched this interesting report (below, or pdf) on teenage media-usage habits. The report does a thorough job of debunking the ‘digital native’ myth, but the thing that really caught my attention is hidden away on page 7: Teens are prolific online publishers, too. Sixty-seven percent…
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