Something that bugs the hell out of me, literally, is the misuse of English. Of course, I was trained as a subeditor in the days…
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How to review books, quickly and informatively
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Yeah, I’m teaching too
As always, click through, and press the red button…
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Tractatus Logico-Chocolatus
1. The world is all that is the taste. 1.1 The world is the totality of flavours, not things. 1.1.1 The world is determined by…
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Evolution quotes: The English and theories
‘What I really like about the English is that they don’t have theories. No Englishman would ever have said, “I think, therefore I am.” Although…
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Evolution quotes: On human nature and doubt
That Pyrot had stolen the eighty thousand trusses of hay nobody hesitated for a moment to believe. No one doubted because the general ignorance in…
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Chocolate causes Nobel Laureates
My research associate, Dr Malte Ebach, has brought to my attention an inadvertent proof of the truth of chocoholism. The New England Journal of Medicine,…
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