Tuesday, 23 July 2013

Jack Reacher, the twenty first century cowboy

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Jack Reacher, the movie, starts with a gripping premise: Normal people are living their everyday lives on a crisp sunny morning in an Am...
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Saturday, 20 July 2013

We drive on the left, so why do we walk on the right?

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In England, we drive on the left. So it would be natural to walk on the left, right? Wrong!  This sign, instructing pedestrians to walk ...
Thursday, 25 April 2013

The Boston Marathon bombings - terrorism, Islamophobia, or something even scarier?

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Bomb at the Boston Marathon A couple of twisted young men kill innocent people at the Boston marathon, and it’s called terrorism. Oth...
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Saturday, 30 March 2013

Why Bollywood does beautiful forevers

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Bollywood India For the same reason that Sweden does crime fiction. Camilla Lackberg Sweden's best selling crime writer, Cam...
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Monday, 25 March 2013

Learning monetary policy from Monopoly

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Ben Bernanke, Mervyn King and D Subbarao ought to play more Monopoly. That would teach them a thing or two about the perils of an expans...
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Saturday, 16 February 2013

Umwelt

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Umwelt: this word deserves to be in more common use. It means "the world as it is experienced by a particular organism". It com...
Sunday, 10 February 2013

The wind beneath my wings does NOT make me fly high

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Bette Midler singing "Wind beneath my wings" Actually, it's the wind above my wings that makes me fly. ...