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SimMcDonalds
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No comments on SimMcDonaldsEat at McDonalds in Sims Online. I have no problem with in-game advertising, but apparently you can improve your standing in the game by eating McD’s food, which is ridiculous and will no doubt cause a player backlash (via ec).
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Cerebroscope
Psychologists, neuroscientists and philosophers like to talk of a hypothetical instrument called the ‘cerebroscope‘. The first time I heard about this, in San Diego, I expressed a bit of surprise, and then asked, ‘Why isn’t it called a ‘brainoscope’?” I was expecting to be told that people used ‘cerebroscope’ because it sounded more impressive (always…
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Goat brains
Most amusing question asked at the BA Festival of Science: “Do people who ate goat brains when they were young get schizophrenia?” This was at a panel session of top UK psychologists and neuroscientists. After the laughter died down, one of the panel members volunteered, “I ate goat brains when I was young.” A few…
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80 days
Around the World in Eighty Days, starring Jackie Chan and Hugh Grant? Say it ain’t so…
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Leicester
I’m finally getting around to putting some of the photos I’ve taken in the past six months online. I’ve just uploaded a few random photos from Leicester.
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College Girls
It strikes me that, so far, the Channel 4 documentary College Girls is giving people a very skewed view of life in Oxbridge. I understand that documentaries have to concentrate on the more interesting aspects of their subjects, which is why the first episode was about a student activist refusing to pay her university fees…
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The BA Festival of Science
Thanks to a generous grant from Trinity College at Cambridge University, I was able to attend the full week-long British Association for the Advancement of Science Annual Festival of Science in Leicester this year, from September 9th to 13th. This is a brief report of what I learned there.
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BBC and China
Now that I’ve subscribed to the BBC RSS feeds, I’m automatically notified when new stories are added. I’m also told when old stories are updated, and while most of the time this is irritating, occasionally you see something interesting. Take this story entitled China grapples with net dilemma, for example. Over the course of a…
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Orange
It seems there’s bad news for all Orange customers. According to their press release they’ll be scrapping all their old tarriffs at the start of October, and introducing a new set that on the face of it seem significantly more expensive. I believe the only good news is that current Orange customers can keep their…
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