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  • Tidal

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    An excerpt from an email I sent a couple of weeks ago Incidentally, I went to a theme park (Thorpe Park, near London) with some friends yesterday, which was good fun. The best part was when we went to a ride called ‘Tidal Wave’. Now, Tidal Wave is basically a big log flume (like Splash…

  • Oz

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    On Friday morning I’ll be flying off to Australia, via Singapore, for just under four weeks. I anticipate lots of fun and frolics and hopefully I’ll be able to update this weblog, which will be a change from the usual. If the resources are available, I’ll also upload some photos as I go along.

  • GM

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    A comment of mine on MetaFilter expressing my views on genetically modified crops.

  • Human Gene Therapy

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    Gene therapy ‘to be expanded’ – good news from the BBC; the UK government is going to significantly increase funding for gene therapy. If things continue like this, the US may get left behind, along with its irrational fear of many other new biological techniques.

  • The TEDMED3 Experience: Day 1

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    A review and summary of the presentations given on the first day of the TEDMED3 conference in Philadelphia.

  • Simpsons Edited

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    An interesting thread on how broadcasters are dealing with the Simpsons episode ‘The Simpsons Versus New York’ which heavily features the World Trade Center.

  • Back again

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    I returned to England on Monday, and almost immediately went to Emmanuel College May Ball, which was great fun. I’m currently a fair bit sleep deprived, but once I’ve recovered I’m going to start work on writing a report of my trip to the TEDMED3 conference. Some teasers: – Be SHOCKED as Adrian is almost…

  • Notes from the Front

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    Wired recently wrote an article on how bloggers are violating gag rules at conferences. In the article, they mention the organiser of the TEDMED3 conference I’m going to tomorrow: Richard Saul Wurman, organizer of the long-running TED conference (which is now TedMed), said reporting restrictions are meaningless, a smoke screen to make attendees think they…

  • Spirit and Opportunity

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    NASA’s two new Mars rovers have been named ‘Spirit’ and ‘Opportunity’. I’m just as much for getting schoolkids to name spacecraft as anyone else, but couldn’t they have picked anything more inspiring? It sounds as if the PC brigade had sucked all the life out of this competition well before it begun. They’re not terrible,…

  • Red Mars

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    Never mind the Beagle 2, the Sci-Fi channel is producing a miniseries based on Kim Stanley Robinson’s Red Mars novel for late 2004. They’d better not screw it up…