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Monthly Archives: March 2013
Rock Cloud Pangaea
I got interested in rock clouds back in February, when I started wondering whether the 15 February Chelyabinsk fireball might have been an outrider in a rock cloud accompanying asteroid 2012-DA14 which made a close approach to Earth on the … Continue reading
Prevention Is Worse Than Cure
I’ve been wondering today what’s the matter with the medical profession, and what to do about it (aside from firing half the doctors), and I began to wonder whether it was because the medical profession had collectively decided that “prevention … Continue reading
Smokers Have Mental Disorders, Eh?
Via Facebook, more defamation of smokers: Smoking may be a sign of psychiatric illness, says report, after a third of smokers are found to have a mental disorder Smoking may be a sign of psychiatric illness, experts say. Doctors should … Continue reading
Dissolution
Well, we didn’t have to wait long for the EU to start demanding more money for its bloated budget, did we? “It is extraordinary that the Commission should demand an increase in the EU budget that is bigger than the … Continue reading
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Something That Won’t Happen.
I couldn’t help thinking today, given reports of some Cypriots taking 80% ‘haircuts’ on their savings, that the least that the well-paid eurocrats in Brussels could do would be pitch in to help Cyprus by taking a haircut on their own … Continue reading
Making It Up As They Go Along
Back to Cyprus, and ZeroHedge has a disturbing story: From Reuters: While ordinary Cypriots queued at ATM machines to withdraw a few hundred euros as credit card transactions stopped, other depositors used an array of techniques to access their money. No one … Continue reading
Out Of Control
I’m not a very controlling person. Or at least I hope I’m not. I’ve never spent much time (or any time at all) lecturing people on how they should live, or getting them to do things they didn’t want to … Continue reading
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Large Scale Bullying
There was a book that came out a few years ago – the Bully State – that I had on my list of books-to-read, but never got round to reading, perhaps because I was already fully persuaded. Today it came … Continue reading
Calling UK Pensioners in Cyprus
A public service announcement: It seems that last week the UK Pension Service wrote to pensioners with Laiki or Bank of Cyprus accounts asking them to open accounts with any other bank, or the Co-Op or Building Society, and get … Continue reading
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Politicised Science
An essay by John Brignell: In the modern age almost everything is political; not just party-political, but also driven by sometimes covert, extra-parliamentary interest groups. Science has come under total political control and so has lost much of its raison d’être, … Continue reading
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