nourishing obscurity

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Courtesy of Edward Spalton: What moves public opinion is not fact nor reasoned argument but feelings generated by what comes in “under the radar” of conscious thought. I wrote this when I was campaigning to “keep the pound”. That was a campaign which could have been won but only because the Conservative Party had put [...]

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All right, the Mail is a comedy paper, giving that little bit of a laugh to the morning reads, usually awash with doom and gloom.  This one though had me shaking my head in disbelief: World-famous Eton pianist arrested for ‘beating up her husband’ and spent eight hours in a cell WTF? A man who [...]

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2nd and 3rd movements …

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One thing getting up my nose is the way you hardly see any poster ad in any public place or in any literature where the photographed person is not from an ethnic minority, is a woman or both. Don’t get me wrong, if it comes to a choice of looking at a giant picture of [...]

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All right, if a group of Christians wish to set up business connections UK wide, then that’s fine by me and probably by all but the most rabid anti-Christian.  A look at their website sees a fairly prescriptive series of principles which need to be agreed first: The following doctrines, from the Evangelical Alliance Basis [...]

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NGC 6744 is almost twice the diameter of the Milky Way, which is approximately 100,000 light-years across. It is about 30 million light-years away in the southern constellation of Pavo (the Peacock), and is as bright as around 60 billion suns with a hazy glow that spreads across a relatively large area in the southern [...]

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Scientific American, to their credit, ran this: False positives and exaggerated results in peer-reviewed scientific studies have reached epidemic proportions in recent years. The problem is rampant in economics, the social sciences and even the natural sciences, but it is particularly egregious in biomedicine. And as I’ve been going on about ad nauseam:

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[Courtesy Bill Sticker]

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Subrosa ran a post and to be fair, it’s from the Scottish point of view and not the English. Essentially, it was saying that “upon reflection” it is better not to have an in/out referendum: “None of the proponents of an “in/out” referendum appears to have given any thought as to how the process of [...]

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Iceland Review Source

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Modern digital cameras are wonderful machines with their whirring and beeping and flashing lights and auto-everything and…. Oh, but sometimes I get all nostalgic for the days when all you needed was a roll of Tri-X and a camera that didn’t need batteries. Kielder Horse Guards Parade

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