- ‘Father, we are here to help each other get through this thing, whatever it is.’ (Kurt Vonnegut’s son to his dad)
- “What happened to the dreams of a girl president / She’s dancing in the video next to 50 Cent / … / I’m so glad that I’ll never fit in / That will never be me / Outcasts and girls with ambition / That’s what I wanna see’ (Pink, ‘Stupid Girls’)
- Extract from Friedan’s The Feminine Mystique
- Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, Household Tales, “The Frog-King, or Iron Henry”
- Trevor Leggett’s site
- Take A Caffeine Nap
- Sheffield Cafe Scientifique (the correct link this time)
- ‘Since suffering a stoke in 2001, former builder Tommy McHugh has felt an insatiable need to create, from painting and drawing to writing and sculpting. He now spends most of his day painting and sculpting and feels utterly unable to stop.’
- Why we should ban ordinary light bulbs (energy efficiency)
- ‘the civic society movement in the Yorkshire and Humber region’
- Mixing Memory on scientists and the illusion of explanatory depth ‘In essence, the information age is producing an entire society of dilettantes who don’t fully realize that they are, in fact, dilettantes.’
- Nietzsche and the eternal recurrence
- galton.org. Where you can see the complete collected works of the ‘Victorian polymath: geographer, meteorologist, tropical explorer, founder of differential psychology, inventor of fingerprint identification, pioneer of statistical correlation and regression, convinced hereditarian, eugenicist, proto-geneticist, half-cousin of Charles Darwin and best-selling author.’
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