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  • Menstrual cycle

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    Why is the lunar month exactly equal to the human female menstrual cycle? This is a question that came up in the New Mars forums, and if you click on the first link, it turns out that it is not exactly equal in the first place.

  • Into the Woods

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    Saw a truly wonderful musical at Oxford called Into the Woods by Stephen Sondheim. The first half is a medley of various fairy tale characters including Jack and Beanstalk, Little Red Ridinghood, Cinderella, brought all together by a quest by the baker and his wife. It’s a traditional musical first half with fun songs and…

  • Exams

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    Exams have finally finished! Had a fun day today watching the England – Argentina match on a cinema screen, and then spent the rest of the day at a barbeque. Going off to Oxford tomorrow to visit my girlfriend as well. Now I can finally stop trying to keep all these random facts in my…

  • 24 DVD

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    24 is coming out on DVD this August! And it’ll be in the UK first. Not too shabby, especially at �35.

  • Thread on VPmusic

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    I’m currently running a discussion about the best way to start an mmoe/alternate reality game over at a set of forums – there’s some interesting stuff being said.

  • Travelling

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    So it seems that this summer I will be working at UCSD in San Diego for a bit over six weeks from late June to early August, and then spending a week in Washington DC. Any readers live nearby, or have any tourist tips?

  • Spooks Yahoo

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    Someone has set up a Spooks YahooGroup to discuss the game. Amusingly, I can recognise least three of the twenty-two current members as Cloudmakers veterans.

  • Squirrels

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    Squirrels – are they really a force for good?

  • TV

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    I was reading a thread on Metafilter about television when I realised that there are now two ways to look at it. You can watch television, or you can watch a programme. To me, ‘watching television’ treats television as an end in itself, whereas ‘watching a programme’ treats it as a means to an end.…

  • Firewalking

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    My answer to a firewalking question was published in today’s Notes and Queries section of the Guardian.