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An excellent chart produced by Douwe Osinga, of Google Trends fame, where he has taken the age of deaths from everyone mentioned in Wikipedia (‘famous people’) and plotted against the year they died. I’ve always speculated that rich people, in the past, never lived much longer than their poorer counterparts ie that medical intervention […]
An excellent chart produced by Douwe Osinga, of Google Trends fame, where he has taken the age of deaths from everyone mentioned in Wikipedia (‘famous people’) and plotted against the year they died. I’ve always speculated that rich people, in the past, never lived much longer than their poorer counterparts ie that medical intervention […]
One of the excellent reasons for living in Cambridge is the diversity of entertainment on offer. Last week for me included:- Hazel O’Connor at the new Junction4 theatre. She appeared and sang even though she had a throat infection. I found it moving the way she explained how each of the songs came into being. […]
One of the excellent reasons for living in Cambridge is the diversity of entertainment on offer. Last week for me included:- Hazel O’Connor at the new Junction4 theatre. She appeared and sang even though she had a throat infection. I found it moving the way she explained how each of the songs came into being. […]
Here is a search on my name using the new idea of Google’s called searchmash It seems pretty awesome to me ranking me in the top 3 positions :-). However, as always the image searches are very poor. I have never worked out how they select images or when they last indexed them. So well […]
Here is a search on my name using the new idea of Google’s called searchmash It seems pretty awesome to me ranking me in the top 3 positions :-). However, as always the image searches are very poor. I have never worked out how they select images or when they last indexed them. So well […]
Here is Ellee on her way up in the Conservative blogging community after visiting some of her Conservative blogging friends in London last Friday see her post. I went along as the minder and taker of the official photo. For me as an attendee at numerous tech blogging events in the past it was a […]
Here is Ellee on her way up in the Conservative blogging community after visiting some of her Conservative blogging friends in London last Friday see her post. I went along as the minder and taker of the official photo. For me as an attendee at numerous tech blogging events in the past it was a […]
Fascinating story on how bacteria communicate with each other such as Chlorea that only produces toxins when in groups. Maybe it works for people too…. NPR : A Biologist’s Listening Guide to Bacteria: “‘So they turn on and off 100 different genes, to let them turn off behaviors that are good when you’re alone and […]
Fascinating story on how bacteria communicate with each other such as Chlorea that only produces toxins when in groups. Maybe it works for people too…. NPR : A Biologist’s Listening Guide to Bacteria: “‘So they turn on and off 100 different genes, to let them turn off behaviors that are good when you’re alone and […]