I see Gove has backed down on climate change and it's back in the curriculum again.

My book is now for sale

At the moment I have set up this journal so that only friends can comment. I hate doing this, but I was just getting too much Russian spam.

I've done a few posts on this blog about Evolutionary Psychology, which I despise. I don't disagree that evolution has had an impact on our psychology, but the way that EvoPsych describes that impact is quite wrong in my opinion. And, like economics and philosophy, it is tainted by modern politics ( Read more... )

I was just thinking that the biggest change I saw in 2012 is a kind of waking up about misogyny and sexual exploitation. Up until recently you just could not say that something (say a joke) was sexist or misogynist without being jeered at just for saying it. Suddenly it is something you can at least say sexism is bad in general conversation, even ( Read more... )

I have stolen from nwhyte his list of the Locus poll of 'best' SF and fantasy novels of the 20th and 21st centuries. Bold means I have read it, italic means I didn't finish it.

Conclusion: I have read more SF than fantasy. Something has alienated me from mainstream SF over the past few years.
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Dear livejournal friends, I have bought you a Christmas present in lieu of sending cards. I donated to Oxfam 'train a teacher'. I could only send the e-card to one person so I have sent it to altariel because she introduced me to livejournal and Twitter ( Read more... )

gylfinir has died. We spent one day together once and I have a scarf she made. I think about her quite often but I did not do enough to let her know.

This is why I have kept off livejournal, because once I start I can't stop posting. Damn. I haven't written one economically productive word this morning ( Read more... )

Here's an article in the New York Times expressing pity for the UK as the subject of a 'brutal' experiment to prove that austerity does not work. Anyone with any claim to economic savvy who said it might ever work should hang their head in shame ( Read more... )