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The Russian winter
Readers will know their history might have heard of how Napoleon seriously contributed to bringing about his own downfall: he tried to conquer Russia. His troops were obviously nearly all French, and France has quite a mild climate -- parts of it Mediterranean and parts of it influenced by the Atlantic winds. They weren't equipped for the Russian ( Read more... ) -
Android app warning
For anyone reading this who has an Android device and wants to post to their Dreamwidth or LiveJournal blog with it, there's a client called Eljay which you can find in the Android Market and which I'm using to type this. Only problem is, it doesn't post private entries, at least not to a Dreamwidth blog - I tested it out twice the other day and ( Read more... ) -
Testing
Testing to see if posting from this client works.
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New (long) article on Simon Baron Cohen
I just published a long article at my main blog, Indigo Jo Blogs, critiquing two of Simon Baron Cohen's books, including his most recent one (Zero Degrees of Empathy, called The Science of Evil in the USA):
Simon Baron Cohen, Autism and Empathy
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The WPI, autism and neuro-immune diseases
The WPI are an institute set up at the University of Nevada, Reno, to research into "neuro-immune diseases". The best-known of these is ME, but they also include fibromyalgia, atypical MS, Gulf War Syndrome and ... autism. Yes, autism, which most of those affected who can speak for themselves would say was not a disease ( Read more... ) -
No, Daily Spew, Kay didn't kill Lynn
Over on my main blog, Indigo Jo Blogs, I've dedicated quite a bit of space (less so recently) to countering ridiculous stories in the Daily Express, which I refer to as the Daily Spew. Very often, they consist of an inflammatory headline on top of a pretty banal story about someone kicking up a fuss about Muslims (or some other minority group) ( Read more... ) -
Who are you calling a slut?
I met with my cousin and two of my aunts earlier today, and my younger female cousin has some quite strong feminist views and today they held the SlutWalk in London. Obviously as she was in Kingston, she wasn't up in London, and I pretty much asked her why she wasn't there. Obviously that was because I expected her to support something like that ( ( Read more... ) -
Trailer for new film about severe ME
This is a trailer for Voices from the Shadows, a film about severe ME by Natalie Boulton, who edited the book Lost Voices (reviewed by me here), and her son Josh Biggs (her daughter, Anna Biggs, has severe ME herself and is featured in the book). The film features interviews with Kay Gilderdale, Criona Wilson (mother of Sophia Mirza, who died after ( Read more... )
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