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A collection of 4 posts

understanding the unimaginable

a utterly bleak story that allows no straight-forward narrative escape from the indifferent callousness of the universe. very bad things happen for no good reason and some people have to live through that.. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/02/27/AR2009022701549.html

Sapolsky on stress

Robert Sapolsky is a great science communicator. If you read any of the titles some of his scientific papers you might scratch your head about "Biphasic cytochrome c release after transient global ischemia and its inhibition by hypothermia." But when talking to a more general audience, he is

where have you been?

So i just met Her Maj, Prince Phil and da princess royal.. it was more fun than i expected.. they were pretty dull but Buckingham Palace was darn cool.. Wasn't expecting it to be quite as palatial as it was... lots of large extremely elegantly luxurious rooms with

the meaning of life

yay! the replies are coming in thick and fast.. you can see them here http://phil.onemonkey.org satisfyingly straight-forward reasoning and largely jargon free too.. good on you, philosophy dudes!