This lady is awesome:

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What a shame that the BBC iPlayer is only available in the UK. There is a large *absurd* tag ready to be slapped on this puppy ( Read more... )

Tenor + madrigals/minstrel songs = beautiful

(Come on LJ, show the emebedded video...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85C1jX0P28k)

You know what I miss about my childhood? That feeling of being totally un-self conscious (there's a better word, but it fails me). For example, I never scrutinized my mum's looks (or weight, even though she was a long-standing WW member). I remember a time at school (I was 12?) when I changed the group of kids I hung out with and forgot that looks ( Read more... )

It's funny how, as you get older, you get to know your parents a bit better simply by turning into them. My dad quoted something by Somerset Maugham (or so he says) which clarifies my opinion about humanity and makes me realise which part of me is "dad": The more I see of man, the more I like my dog.

Word.

Oh look! Alex Gerrard is bringing out a workout DVD soon!

(Number three in a series of "Celebrities Working out in Parks". Brought to you by my extreme cynisism of famous people working out in public spaces with personal trainers while paps are about)

I run into really odd papers in the course of my working day, but this one suited my mood this week:

We compare the structure and behavior of invasive cancer to suburban sprawl development. While these two systems differ vastly in dimension, they appear to adhere to scale-invariant laws consistent with invasive behavior in general. We demonstrate ( Read more... )

I might be "all science" most of the time - Ben Goldacre has revealed to me all the insanity of homeopathy, nutritionists, and dodgy statistics - but research like this still interests me. Research that looks at "medicine" derived from nature (and paracetamol was first extracted from willow bark lest we forget ( Read more... )

To all you dog lovers out there:

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Awesome little dog with an amazing portfolio of tricks!

I spent this past weekend in Somerset with my best friend from primary school. Hope to stick up some photos soon-ish.

In other news, the cutest thing I've found recently: Winnie the Pooh in Latin

And papers I'd like to share but can't find the time to give a proper write-up: hydroxycut causing liver toxicity and unusual uses of nutmegI cycled to ( Read more... )