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Science in the media summed up in one sentence
What is not immediately apparent from the news report is that this was an experiment in rodents and its relevance to the human desire for kebabs is limited.
The Daily Mail strikes again.
A helpful bar chart
The Oxford Mail seems to be struggling with bar charts (and with setting survey questions, for that matter).
Richard Holden sounds like fun
6 Music? Cakes and biscuits? Middle-class? I’m liking the sound of this Richard Holden fella:
Richard Holden, one of the 6 Music supporters who attended the protest, said: “It was packed. It was mostly middle-aged, middle-class people – there was never going to be any trouble whatsoever. We had cakes, biscuits, bands playing some acoustic songs. Everything was good about it apart from the weather.”
via 6 Music: Adam Buxton and Liz Kershaw join protest at BBC | Media | guardian.co.uk.
(To clarify: this Richard Holden isn’t me!)
Oxford cyclists and red lights
This is a very high percentage of fellow Oxford cyclists who seem to be going out of their way to make me mad:
Three 30-minute Oxford Mail surveys in the city showed cyclists routinely ignoring red signals at junctions.
At the Botley Road junction with Frideswide Square, 15 out of 67 cyclists approaching red lights ignored them. At the crossroads near the Sheldonian Theatre in Broad Street, 48 out of 112 cyclists jumped red lights.
The High Street junction with Longwall Street saw 39 out of 88 cyclists ignore stop signals.
via Rogue cyclists could be sent on awareness courses (From Oxford Mail).
Dave Eggers on Joanna Newsom
Now that the archives of Spin are available on Google Books, I can revisit this 2004 article by Dave Eggers about Joanna Newsom, which made her sound interesting enough that I bought the Milk-Eyed Mender without having heard any of it.
I hope she’s not pretty… Wouldn’t it be nice if a woman could become popular with a face that could melt cheese? If Joanna Newsom knows what’s good for her, she should be covered in boils.
250 words that should not be used by the public sector when providing information to the public
Produced by the Local Government Association, the list for 2010 [pdf] includes the new additions:
- Trialogue
- Wellderly
- Goldfish bowl facilitated conversation
- Tonality
- Webinar
- Under-capacitated
- Clienting
- Disbenefits
It’s good to see webinar put in its rightful place. I’d find it hard to even venture a guess about what half the words on the list are actually supposed to mean.
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