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Jun.02.2010
The Crannog at Loch Tay, Scotland
A recent trip to Scotland, mostly for pleasure and fun, which it provided in large amounts, was also partly for research. Gotta get those write-offs when you are a scrabbling freelancer.
Hopefully a travel story or two will come out of the trip during the next few...
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May.10.2010
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Good Grief!
Research stopped me cold for a couple of hours the other day. "Hello," it said. Tapped me on the shoulder. "Are you positive you're right about this? Shouldn't you make sure? Take a little search? Dot those Is. Cross those Ts. It's what your...
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May.02.2010
Ah, isn’t this what women have been looking for - men who know how to cuddle rather than fumble?
It apparently won’t come naturally to these alpha guys, so we need to resort to some assistance. Not only will it make men do the bear hug, but also transform them into tear-jerking, diaper-changing,...
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Apr.27.2010
According to a British research survey, which questioned 1500 women, owning an iPhone makes men more attractive. It also transpired that women think iPhone-men communicate better and are more into humour. Thirty-seven percent of the interviewees find iPhone-men more trustworthy. Well, that is a...
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Apr.23.2010
I still remember the beggar girl craning her neck as the couple walked down the road, foreign tourists with straw hats, fair with golden hair. There was a girl with them. A girl as dark as the urchin. A girl who looked like an add-on, who did not seem to belong. Both girls were turning to look at...
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Apr.22.2010
Oxford University Press launches the Anti-GoogleBy Jon Stokes | Last updated a day ago
Crowdsourced knowledge repositories like Wikipedia are great for finding the answer to questions that aren't particularly urgent or critical, but their problems are legion, well-documented, and oft-lamented if...
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Apr.15.2010
That albatross round your neck is a loyal dog, but adultery rules in the avian kingdom. Bird-watching has got a fresh connotation in an upcoming book The Bird Detective by Bridget Stutchbury.
This might not have ruffled my human feathers at all for the simple reason that the concept of...
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Mar.28.2010
I remember best when I am in a state of turmoil. Then why are scientists saying that stronger and more lasting memories are likely to be formed when a person is in repose and the memory-related neurons in the brain do a little tango with certain brain waves?
I differ here, even if it goes against...
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Mar.26.2010
To a student’s ears, there is probably no phrase more welcome than the words “open book test”. The catch, however, is that an open book can be next to useless if you don’t know which chapter holds the answer or how to interpret and apply that answer to a fresh problem. For writers on a quest,...
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Mar.24.2010
mouth open to the moon
crater ice pure as vice
greeted me with crescent smile
a comet arrived to lay claims
on the wet lunar plains
I was left to drink off the dirt pond
in the murky icicles crystals shone
I balled them in my fist
and saw a future in stone
the winds were strong
I...
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