- on the interaction between the violent minority and press photographers
- In the thick of the skinny latte riot
- The ‘Microcosmographia Academia’: ‘The Young Man in a Hurry is afficted with a conscience, which is apt to break out, like measles, in patches>
- YouTube A short video on Skinner and Operant Conditioning
- Sinn Féin’s Garry Adams meets Hamas’ Ismail Haniyeh
- Correcting the media narrative of the G20 protests on April 1, 2009
- ‘Decoding reveals the contents of visual working memory in early visual areas’ This study shows that early visual areas can retain specific information about features held in working memory even when there is no physical stimulus present.
- Slick visual illusions site, sadly without much explanation
- Jim Hanson says coal is the single greatest threat to civilisation and all life on our planet.
- freehicham.co.uk
- mindhacks.com RD Laing as Wounded Healer
- How to drag an off-screen window back to the desktop (in Windows)
- George Monbiot on traditions in british policing of protest
- Doodling with sounds: Tonematrix
- picturesforsadchildren.com Nerds do not redefine adulthood, they waste it
- makingmaps.net
- Oh dear Jared Diamond in libel case over 2008 New York article about vengence
- Mindhacks.com Classic study on giving placebo stimulatants to insomniacs
- ‘This is, as far as I am aware, the first properly conducted placebo controlled, double blind trial of an over the counter cosmetic product. Boots are to be congratulated for doing this.’
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Some relatives of F. M. Cornford are old friends of my Grandmother’s (his great-niece and her mother, I think)- also great Classicists, they took a shine to me when they found I was travelling down that road and gave me a number of old tomes including a copy of the Microcosmographia Academia 🙂