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if you’re going to San Di-ego….

If Southern California hadn’t had enough to deal with recently, 35-40 000 neuroscientists will be descending on San Diego next week and I get to be one of them. whoopee.
I wonder whether god might have something against neuroscience. The annual Society for Neuroscience conference rotates between Washington DC, Orlando, New Orleans and San Diego. [...]

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Bad Science

Ben Goldacre, the bad science columnist from the Guardian, stands up for Evan Harris today on his blog. Evan has being getting some stick from, among others, Nadine Dorries, his fellow Science and Technology Select Committee member.

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Ming the clam is ‘oldest animal’

From the BBC website
The cartoonists must be kicking themselves that he isn’t around anymore!

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Olympic rowing course run dry

An interesting thread on the rec.sport.rowing messageboards here. The Olympic rowing venue in Beijing has run dry due to drought. The Beijing authorities are going to divert another river to replenish it. The course is in the arid, urban region Shunyi of Beijing so natural run-off to replenish the it is practically [...]

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La Nuit des Musees

I don’t know whether this would really work well in any British town or City, or even if it can already be found anywhere in the UK, but I thought it is a great idea, and one that maybe a councilor in a small city might like to think about.
La Nuit des Museés, Museum Night, [...]

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How to make £22 Billion from 3Gs

It has been a while now since the Conservative policy reviews, and in particular, John Redwood’s arch-free market pamphlet, the economic competitiveness review. If you read my book page you will see I readily admitted my lack of knowledge in economic matters so I will not be critiquing Mr Redwood’s work on any huge [...]

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Blogging list

A quick list I hope to blog about in the coming weeks, months, years or millennia:

Immigrant amnesty
Nuclear power
The Lords
Political correctness and do-gooding
Political blogging
Piracy
The free market
BBC prime
A Bill of rights
The ECPG review
Trickery
Open source
Speechifying

Some of these relate to quite old issues now but I want my say, and goddamnit, I’m gonna have it!

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Nick for PM

I am supporting Nicky Willy Petey Clegg in the leadership elections. Why?
It could be the tasty wife.
It could be the tousled locks.
It could even be because he went to Cambridge.
But its actually just because he sounds like such a f***ing decent guy and is definitely who we need to lead the party TO VICTORY!!!!!!!
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Nasty blogging

So that was a post about bad decisions made by two Labour politicians. I mentioned the two cases because I thought they should be mentioned. This will be a blog focusing on the Liberal Democrat party, however, I going to try not to fall into the trap of proving Godwin’s Law in all posts [...]

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Bad politics

Yesterday, I made a comment on a post about Miranda Grell, which is the first link to this blog from the outside world so I suppose I had better start writing something. So a quick note. Miranda Grell made a false statement about another election candidate in order to enhance her own chances of [...]