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      • Seeking a soul
        02/28/07
        Curious combo rattling in the old brain: Colossians Remixed is a look at battling an Evil Empire then and now. New Idea of a University uses Pride and Prejudice as exemplar and shows how the keen student can change both in herself as well as exorcise monsters like Mrs Bennet and Mr Collins. Friends

      • A math tool for all sciences?
        02/26/07
        I wonder if us A-levelled Brits can appreciate the freedom Mathematica offers for us to think beyond the western science paradigms. One way in is the weirder bits of quantum physics, relativity and cosmology. What Hawkins tried in the beautiful pictures of his glossy coffee table book, perhaps the m

      • Global opportunities for some
        02/25/07
        Thank heaven for global heating - the unfolding tragedies may just be enough to unite us in doing something about it. Judging by our reaction to wars so far, as ways of reducing both foreign and in-house opposition, that is a slim chance though until at least a couple of billion of us have been snuf

      • Repeated behaviour as a tool in self-therapy
        02/22/07
        Whoever repeats things valuable to life thrives and breeds truer. In physics a repeatable process often involves pleasing resonance as in musical notes, in yoga a repeated posture brings repose, in many buddhisms a mantra develops oneness, in western religion a repeated prayer brings holiness, team

      • Toward a practical democracy
        02/19/07
        The effect of legally carrying a weapon, as enshrined in say the American constitution or urban guerrilla code, is very similar to that of drugs: mind control by part per trillion quantities of happy brain chemicals. To cope with stress, we need a powerful useable tool. If the pen-pushers are right,

      • Will gun law win in our west too?
        02/17/07
        The best memorial to the teenagers killed in London this month would be peace rampant in their schools so that a culture of work and success could be established. The chaos around just one difficult teenager struggling with street cred problems in a your-mum diss-me-not culture cannot be imagined by

      • What else did Sue Cameron omit from her otherwise excellent Cheating Classes?
        02/12/07
        I note that education, medicine, cabinet politics and the great families are not there. But then she is looking at the effect of modern slavery from what it does to the root tips, the little people. On direct causes, like bailiff bullying, councillor attitudes, and treasury influence, she is solid.

      • The primary professional
        02/09/07
        We are each our own, or close to it.

        Just as we have to back the agent with presence or money to her own primary advantage, so we have always needed to get second opinions on doctor and lawyer, baker and goldsmith.

        All in range of course, so long as we can double guess wikipedi

      • Why justice must be quantised
        02/08/07
        Ebay and friends united, googledocs and google earth succeed because we each drive them from our unique perch in the framework. Not so the court system. Yes we may trust a Judge Sirica, Nixon’s nemesis over Watergate, or the hypothetical Justice Deed, avatar-judge both human and superhuman, but we a

      • What the streetcam says
        02/08/07
        The able operator can tell from body language those coming out of the station about to commit a crime, and afterwards that they have done it. The clues are almost subliminal, and there is no public training for picking up the skills. It will not be long before the combination of visual evidence with

      • We deserve our global problems, can we learn to solve them?
        02/07/07
        We get the problems we need, says gaia theory. Derided by many, James Lovelock’s Gaia theory is that the earth is close to flip over into almost or worst case totally uninhabitable. Not global warming, global heating. But he says with equal confidence we could do something about it. He also says if

      • A deduction from the fMRI silence
        02/07/07
        Coupled with the media interest in X-ray scanning on the street for security alerts, and the problems of data integrity and identity theft, an impending challenge is the growing use of fMRI brain scans for purposes other than medical diagnosis. With the advertised public price of a scan dropping to

      • A mental process hypothesis: daemons, demons and damons
        02/06/07
        Daemons are little servicing programs that control flow in unix computers. Many run at the same time, checking for interrupts, switching memory on and off, deciding priorities, all the little tasks are controlled by daemons.

        Like Maxwell’s daemon in physics, many control gateways at the

      • Maybe the claims courts are next up for change
        02/05/07
        Why pay Bloomberg and friends when a simple letter to the damage inflictor, inviting them to discuss with one rep max each of equivalent legal standing, in front of a good-will local arbitrator, a street judge.

        Whose judgement is not binding, but indicative of likely result or damages, an

      • Rewards for carers. If GPs get greens, why not the daily carers?
        02/05/07
        Spare a thought for rewards for carers like nurses, junior therapists, cleaner-carers, classroom assistants, nursery nurses, home visitors, street wardens, an unsung myriad.

        OK so our accountants claim we cant pay ‘em. But we cant afford not to reward them. The damage an unhappy carer doe

      • Why the UK doctors are worth their money to government and us.
        02/05/07
        Easy, ennit? They are the front line in picking up mass medical problems which will make them invaluable to our masters for expert advice fast in crises before they hit the press.

        They also do it comfortably, with practised bedside manner, bringing cure or rumour of cure for the problem

      • Should the fission debate be accelerated?
        02/04/07
        Lovelock says yes to fission right now urgently, and that’s enough for me. In the teeth of greens and media saying no nuclear ever, the cleanest safest and only effective reliable method is being done down by the same good guys who would save the planet.


        How else will China stop op

      • Don't push Blair out!
        02/03/07
        Just finishing All the presidents men again. Initially no comparison with Blair: Nixon’s support team were not nice, reflecting their leader. Blair had to have good people, good with the media, with Labour, with money, and with foresight and with skill to assemble and deliver good thinking on educat

      • Why wolfram?
        02/02/07
        The parts of science peeping under the conventional curtain are complex, multi-factor, and changing. They fool the fan and terrify the initiate: even the soccer ref can’t see it all, let alone the economist and the quantum physicist. Simple questions like is space quantised and can medicine act at a

      • Just visited a Golgotha
        02/01/07
        Three crosses, holding the flapping consciences of good folk trying to improve the world. Broken on the resistance of young people to old moralities. Easy to blame dysfunctional parenting, or STOPP, or d&d of all types. Not easy to fix without a willing army. The intellectually poor you will alw

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