December 2010
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Soon to embark on my last adventure of 2010
Let’s hope there are plenty more in 2011
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I kept coming back to this route for respite from my work and for my work too,...
– Rebecca Solnit, from the opening pages of Wanderlust: A History of Walking.
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Irony has only emergency use. Carried over time, it is the voice of the trapped...
– Lewis Hyde
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Irony has only emergency use. Carried over time, it is the voice of the trapped...
– Lewis Hyde
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The Writer at Work →
“… I need a break — I’ll go out for a walk …” —Tolstoy (as told by Tom Gauld)
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Because sudoku has simple rules, we felt that maybe bacteria could solve it for...
– Ryo Taniuchi, leader of a team of scientists in Tokyo who taught bacteria how to solve sodoku puzzles.
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Yet another giant reading list →
(Note to self, read more. Much, much more)
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No one really knows if there is a bubble until after one pops. Nevertheless,...
– Facebook derivatives!? I love/hate this idea in so many ways…
A Silicon Bubble Shows Signs Of Reinflating (NYT)
As well as recounting the lavish lifestyle of the Kazakh elite, the cables...
– Not everybody’s unhappy with the WikiLeak: PM happy with his mention
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To listen to enough Radiolab is to see that scientists haven’t simply replaced...
– “My gosh, who hasn’t experienced The ‘Radiolab’ Effect? It totally happened to me.” (Shanai)
Ditto!
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