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Things I Learned or Made Up: March 2007
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Things I Learned or Made Up. Some things that I have learned recently, and some other things that I have made up recently. Wednesday, 28 March 2007. States that scientific laws are typically named after the second. Person to have discovered them, or else the person who promoted someone else's original idea rather more successfully. For example, Haley didn't discover Haley's comet, nor did Planck invent Planck's constant. And finally nor did Stigler invent Stigler's law. Links to this post. 800 grams of b...
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Things I Learned or Made Up: July 2008
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Things I Learned or Made Up. Some things that I have learned recently, and some other things that I have made up recently. Monday, 14 July 2008. Tim Spicer, OBE. If you have a problem, if no one else can help, and if you can find him, maybe you can hire Colonel Tim Spicer. Well, finding him shouldn't be too hard: he's here. Staring moodily into the middle distance. Hiring him may cost you a few bob though. According to my faded copy of the Grauniad. Suing said governments when they fail to cough up is re...
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Things I Learned or Made Up: April 2007
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Things I Learned or Made Up. Some things that I have learned recently, and some other things that I have made up recently. Thursday, 26 April 2007. Those crazy Spanish academics in Barcelona have figured out why green tea is good for you. Apparently, it's because of "an extremely narrow adiabatic potential-energy profile corresponding to the hydrogen abstraction by the peroxyl radical," which is much as I always expected. I once took part in a study at UCL. The Dormouse in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.
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Things I Learned or Made Up: August 2008
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Things I Learned or Made Up. Some things that I have learned recently, and some other things that I have made up recently. Friday, 29 August 2008. Not just the Lego Builder's Club. So apparently, it's illegal to "profess" that one belongs to a proscribed organisation. I'm part of the Abu Sayyaf Group, and have a note to prove it. (Although according to the Home Office list. The "precise aims of Abu Sayyaf Group are unclear".). Coming a bit closer to home, I was briefly a member of Cumann na mBan. Profess...
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Things I Learned or Made Up: Tim Spicer, OBE
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Things I Learned or Made Up. Some things that I have learned recently, and some other things that I have made up recently. Monday, 14 July 2008. Tim Spicer, OBE. If you have a problem, if no one else can help, and if you can find him, maybe you can hire Colonel Tim Spicer. Well, finding him shouldn't be too hard: he's here. Staring moodily into the middle distance. Hiring him may cost you a few bob though. According to my faded copy of the Grauniad. Suing said governments when they fail to cough up is re...
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Things I Learned or Made Up: February 2007
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Things I Learned or Made Up. Some things that I have learned recently, and some other things that I have made up recently. Wednesday, 28 February 2007. The word "grue" to a logician/philosopher refers to things that are green before the year 2000 and blue afterwards. Similarly, "bleen" things are blue before 2000 then green. It was introduced in 1955 by Nelson Goodman. Links to this post. Thursday, 22 February 2007. You can't see me! That produces wavelengths around 500nm - or "green" to you and me. ...
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Things I Learned or Made Up: I have an enormous optic chiasm
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Things I Learned or Made Up. Some things that I have learned recently, and some other things that I have made up recently. Thursday, 20 September 2007. I have an enormous optic chiasm. Paul Pierre Broca was a French surgeon and anatomist. That the damage was NOT in Broca's area, but was quite widespread and different in each case. So should Broca's area. As he would have said, being French and all. For this is the man who also proposed " Broca's rule. A more contemporary brain expert is Dan Hodgins.
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Things I Learned or Made Up: December 2007
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Things I Learned or Made Up. Some things that I have learned recently, and some other things that I have made up recently. Tuesday, 4 December 2007. Things I learned from playing Civ4 - part two of an occasional series. If you speak the truth, have a foot in the stirrup." - Turkish Proverb. Ten years before writing the liberal loveliness that is "The West Wing", Aaron Sorkin. Wrote the play (later made into a film) 'A Few Good Men', including the famous dialogue:. Tom Cruise: I want the truth! Is a small...
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Things I Learned or Made Up: June 2007
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Things I Learned or Made Up. Some things that I have learned recently, and some other things that I have made up recently. Friday, 1 June 2007. Maraschino cherries and orange futures. The Maraschino cherry makes every Manhattan perfect. Well, actually having equal measures of whiskey and dry vermouth. Makes a Manhattan perfect, of course. And while it is hard to improve upon perfection, any cocktail is surely improved by being served at the Savoy's American Bar. Going back to the Manhattan cocktail, alth...
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Things I Learned or Made Up: September 2007
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Things I Learned or Made Up. Some things that I have learned recently, and some other things that I have made up recently. Thursday, 27 September 2007. I am a Spartacus order." "No, I am a Spartacus order.". About Alisher Usmanov have been well-publicised, by the former British ambassador to Uzbekistan among others. Nice-guy Usmanov hired nice-guy laywers Schillings. To protect him, and they forced a couple of blogs to be removed from the web, hence killing the story dead. A bit. So who are Schillings.
