August 2011
1 post
The beaten track is the beaten track because it goes past all the best attractions. The season is the season because that’s the best time to go. Maybe you don’t like crowds. Maybe you don’t want to be a sheep. But don’t put yourself through hell to avoid them both on principle… just get up earlier than everyone else.
February 2011
1 post
“Don’t you drink? I notice you speak slightingly of the bottle. I have drunk...”
– Ernest Hemingway (via americandrink)
April 2010
2 posts
Let’s face it, the UK general election is going to be a travesty, and social media is to blame for much of the foolishness. It’s now guaranteed to be a triumph of marketing over actual policies, with the crucial vote of the lethargic young hanging on stupid and misleading impressions of each Party’s intentions, perpetrated by Twitter or amusing Facebook groups extolling...
Moral judgments can be altered by magnets →
mills:
MIT scientists applied magnetic fields to the right temporo-parietal junction, which has been shown with fMRI imaging to be involved in thinking about “judgements involving other people’s intentions,” and how those intentions alter the morality of their actions. In their experiments…
…the researchers found that when the right TPJ was disrupted, subjects were more likely to judge failed...
March 2010
3 posts
http://bit.ly/bLMHZC →
Our real environmental disaster, I have always suspected, may be that we are surrounded by plastic - check out the link above. I’ve re-written and reposted this btw.
I’m sure this issue is just the tip of the iceberg - and as I intimated in my eco-rant on the old Blogger blog, it’s not really the things we are all encouraged to do - like turn off the TV instead of leaving in on...
I made a New Year’s resolution this year. I resolved not to make any more stupid New Year’s resolutions until I’d done at least some of the things I resolved to do in 2007. But now I have realised (because I revisited my old Blogger blog) that actually I have achieved some of them, and so I am faced with a dilemma, which always sounds to me like an animal with an improbable...
