I read the new London newspaper last night, and enjoyed the story about straight girls dating gay girls for the first time. Particularly the advice to straight girls to cut out the preening, pouting and coy girly voice stuff. It just don’t impress. This makes me jealous. Why? Because for a variety of reasons I’ve [...]
A few rules of thumb which may work for you? 1. If you want someone to move out of your way quickly and smoothly, first move out of their way - thay way they thank you for doing what you want them to do. 2. By the natural laws of distribution/variation/probability there’s always someone who’s [...]
Medical imaging often involves the solution of mathematical inverse problems. This means that cause (the properties of living tissue) is inferred from effect (the observed signal). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical_imaging
Blimey, I thought that was what I had been studying history for back at Cambridge. You start off with events, a war say, and then work backwards to the [...]
A speech I wrote for Anita Roddick in 1997, which mentions Princess Diana and media freedom. I wonder if it still adds value?..
My latest try is this one for clever people; ‘they know how to make small things big, & big things small’..
Thanks to the Guardian - Malcolm Gladwell talks to Robert McCrum The writer of The Tipping Point and Blink in conversation at The Purcell Room, London. (mp3, 36m). Right near the end I liked the bit when Malcolm says he doesn’t believing in planning and gets a big laugh from someone in the audience (no [...]
Employers look for people who dare go after a riskier but more potentially rewarding path, who will pull through more often than not. These are what Trump calls Big Thinkers..
Dr Rice talks about ’stability and peace’ in the Middle East. In that certain sequence, as in law and then order. Not ‘peace and stability’, God forbid. She should know, it’s the same difference between ‘a black woman’ and ‘a woman who is black’ - for a social scientist this question is non-trivial. It’s subject [...]
What came 1st, the chicken or the egg? Personally I don’t think you can’t separate the two; it’s asking what came first is wrong..
There’s a report on the BBC which says “a senior police officer has joined calls for heroin to be made available on the NHS to help tackle an explosion in crack cocaine use. Cleveland Police Det Supt Tom Stoddart said heroin is a “gateway” to crack.