images The Stork.. is the bird of war http://clusterfunction.co...eydotcom/Stork/ As an antidote to all the lovely lickle babbies in my life, here's Nina Paley's wonderful animation The Stork (31Mb Quicktime Mov)
science Time Machine http://www.discover.com/issues/nov-05/cover/ I could do with a few more thousand years to procrastinate into right now!
quotes wacked out goodness A light has dawned for me: I need companions, living ones, not dead companions and corpses which I carry with me wherever I wish. But I need living companions who follow me because they want to follow themselvesó and who want to go where I want to go. A light
psycho the same old odd one out http://www.cf.ac.uk/psych/home/hahnu/ That there Belinda is very cunning; when i first tried to explain to her what my research would be about she listened for a bit then started singing this Seasame Street song. This was especially impressive because this was long before i
psycho observing babies brains with lasers http://www.ninds.nih.gov/...rs_workshop.htm I tested my first baby today! In fact, i tested twins. okay, it wasn't for my study and i didn't much beyond distracting the blighters whilst someone else strapped a near-infrared spectroscopy camera to the back of their
quotes Umberto Enigma "I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth." - Umberto Eco
psycho Taking a toddler to the zoo! Some three months ago, before I knew that I would be doing my PhD on categorisation and concept formation I was reflecting on the 'shape of thoughts' and (mainly to impress a lady) I wrote this: I have been thinking about the shape of thoughts, and except in
words BookCrossing gone wholesale http://www.bookcrossing.com/articles/2010 Click on this post's title for the wonderful tale of a man who overnight acquires 2,000 new books he wants to bookcross. A great article about the joys and perils of this addictive form of biblioholistic exhibitionism. I wish he'
psycho Day two - The Book of Big Concepts although last night i stayed up until four or five am drinking, taking ritalin and being rude to my beloved, this morning i managed to get into the office at a very respectable 11am.. and as it is now past seven i have done a full eight hour day.. it
psycho I am an infantologist! http://www.cbcd.bbk.ac.uk I am writing this from my new desk in my new office in the Birkbeck BabyLab. i didn't get in until 4pm today because i am still largely nocturnal but have an induction on wednesday that requires a 10 am start so
words The Storm at the Globe so clever, so silly, so funny, so friendly and such huge fun..but rather hard to describe.. it was a piece of comedy more than a piece of theatre.. a parody of greek/roman comedy (Plautus play about prostitutes) that was deliberately littered with jokes, absurdities and anachronisms. There were
words Rylance, Shakespeare and The Globe THE TEMPEST ACT IV SCENE I PROSPERO be cheerful, sir. Our revels now are ended. These our actors, As I foretold you, were all spirits and Are melted into air, into thin air: And, like the baseless fabric of this vision, The cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces, The
words Exit, pursued by a bear A Winter's Tale, famous for having the only stage direction in the whole of Shakespeare, and for not being terribly good. Done by the company at the Globe in original treatment and sumptuous costumes it was very good entertainment.. if not reaying the lyrical heights of the so-called
philosophy John Ashbery My Philosophy of Life Just when I thought there wasn't room enough for another thought in my head, I had this great idea-- call it a philosophy of life, if you will.Briefly, it involved living the way philosophers live, according to a set of principles. OK, but
images The battle of Oberbaumbr¸cke http://see.onemonkey.org/...&g2_itemId=5253 It tickles me that I will be able to tell my grandchildren that i fought the Germans for their benefit. Of course, I don't plan to have any children so quite how i tell their children anything is something i
psycho Study claims men have higher IQ than women http://www.newkerala.com/...llnews&id=19926 Link obviously we are just commenting on a largely uninformative press release about paper that isn't available yet, which isn't a very intelligent thing to do. but i think we can proceed by accepting the basic headline that
science Uncle Albert and the Cosmic Raymonds http://www.einsteinjahr.de/ Ich habe keine besondere Begabung, sondern bin nur leidenschaftlich neugierig. - Albert Einstein* It's Einstein year here. The 100th anniversary of his annus mirabilis, as I am sure you knew. The exhibition was really good, packed full of neatness and good ideas. There were
Berlin the eyes are having it i was falsely accused of being high on drugs last night.. by this guy of all people.. it happens to me a lot. people spot my massive pupils and conclude i am halfway to the moon. it is simply not true. not usually. my own explanation for my jeepers peepers
quotes sickly sweet Life is like a box of chocolates.. if you read the handy guide provided then you'll know exactly what is on offer and can choose accordingly. -Me although that is not necessarily my opinion!
quotes A Secret Life Why you need to have one is not much more mysterious than why you don't say what you think at the birth of an ugly baby. Or, you've just made love and feel you'd rather have been in a dark booth where your partner
words Vor dem Palast in Rom When in Rome one might expect people to speak Italian or possibly Latin. Here in Berlin, I didn't necessarility expect to be sitting in the theatre in Tachales watching Titus Andronicus performed in Japanese. Why am I here? I just followed Davi. She has a nose for these
quotes "Humor or Philosophy?" by none http://www.chronwatch.com...y.asp?aid=16577 'SECURITY'' IDIOT: I was checking in at the Fort Worth airport, when a security weenie asked, "Has anyone put anything in your baggage without your knowledge? To which I replied, "If it was without my knowledge, how
bad Dancehall Vibes & Streetside Violence http://dirtyraggasquad.de Had a great night at Rosi's for some lovely reggae with remarkably versatile MC-ing from Gunjah Deluxe & Madame Mimi, see september pictures But as I shuffled out into the night for my first bad experience in Berlin. wandering the streets i bumped into to
