Welcome to the latest edition of the Weekly Head Voices, in which I briefly touch upon the, to my mind, mention-worthy events that took place within my field of observation during week 5 of the year 2010, and with which I too finally have an excuse to (ab)use the famous words of Magritte for my [...]
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Weekly Head Voices #12: Ceci n’est pas une bibliothèque.
February 9th, 2010 · 5 Comments · life, science, work
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Weekly Head Voices #11: iCalmDown.
January 31st, 2010 · 2 Comments · life, science, work
My Tall Philosophical Neighbour (henceforth TPN) blogged today about the iCalmDown, which, as you know, is the latest Apple product released with perhaps a tad too much fanfare this past week. Yes, I do realise that I’m most privileged to have a tall neighbour who’s both philosophical and manages to blog with more regularity than [...]
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You must vaccinate
May 21st, 2009 · 25 Comments · Commentary, education, life, meta, science
I was mistakenly under the impression that, at least in my social circles, the whole vaccination issue had been put completely to rest, but based on the number of serious questions that I’ve been asked recently, this unfortunately does not seem to be the case. For those of you who don’t have time, I’ll cut [...]
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