Archive for August, 2006
The reason for truth
August 15th, 2006 by Roger Darlington
As I explained in a recent posting, one of the themes of this weblog and of my web site is that lots of people believe lots of strange things and we have to have a rational means of identifying truth based on evidence. I explained that I was working up a short essay on this […]
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“Right now, we don’t have a choice”
August 14th, 2006 by Roger Darlington
When you have a 24 year old Czech medical student staying with you for six weeks and he has little interest in the cultural delights of London, there’s not a lot of choice. So I know that I said, in an earlier posting, that – having watched series 3 of “24” on DVD – I […]
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How to be happy
August 12th, 2006 by Roger Darlington
In my popular web site section on “Life Skills”, I have a page on “How To Be Happy”. I’ve just read a book which underlines much of the practical advice on my web site from the point of view of recent academic studies in the fields of economics and psychology. It is called simply “Happiness” […]
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My latest musical discovery
August 12th, 2006 by Roger Darlington
I’ve recently been playing “Piece By Piece” by Katie Melua and I’m just blown away by it. Katie – born in Georgia and raised in Belfast and south-east London – has a wonderful voice and I love her music. Only 22, she has already had great success in Europe and she is currently in the […]
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Girl with a one-track mind
August 11th, 2006 by Roger Darlington
You’ve probably never heard of the blog Girl with a one-track mind (I hadn’t until today) – but you’re going to … Partly because the author has just had a book published based on her sexually explicit blog and partly because her anonymity has just been blown by the “Sunday Times” leading to her volunteering […]
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Marrying (a) twin(s)
August 11th, 2006 by Roger Darlington
A friend in South Africa has sent me a translation of an item from a newspaper in Thailand annnouncing the marriage of a Thai man to twins. Now I’m married to a twin and, in some respects, it’s a very interesting experience (they talk on the phone an average of once a day) but, besides […]
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NightHawk archives saved
August 11th, 2006 by Roger Darlington
As regular visitors will know, I had to relocate the hosting of NightHawk a month or so ago – a process carried out by my good friend Eric Lee. However, transfering the huge archive proved more problematic, but has now been achieved thanks to the kind efforts of the Dutch Victor Gevers who is webmaster […]
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The magic of cobalt green
August 9th, 2006 by Roger Darlington
We are reaching the physical limits of miniaturisation of micro-electronic components, but a new technology called spintronics may be coming to the rescue. Spintronics involves manipulating the magnetic properties of electrons to do the work of computers. A major advance in this development is the use of something called cobalt green. Cobalt green is a […]
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The need for a ceasefire
August 9th, 2006 by Roger Darlington
The latest outbreak of violence in the Middle East continues and so far the UN has failed to agree a resolution calling for a ceasefire. Meanwhile more than 1,000 people, most of them civilians, have been killed in the conflict, the Lebanese government has said. More than 100 Israelis, most of them soldiers, have also […]
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The shock defeat of Joe Lieberman
August 9th, 2006 by Roger Darlington
Joe Lieberman is a lifelong Democrat who has been a US Senator for Connecticut for 18 years. He was the running mate to Al Gore in the Presidential election of 2000 and he tried for the Democractic candidacy in the race of 2004. The news of his defeat in the Democratic primary to newcomer Ned […]
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