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Robin Ince's Blog
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The Late Night Vomit Tour Diary…Not Mine – Robin Ince
When touring on Fridays and Saturday nights, I try as often as I can to remain in my performing location. Public transport contains a word variety of people caught in either slightly too high spirits or bent over in pain.
Blog in a Teacup
Helen Czerski Blog
Not Quite Ready to Come Home – Helen Czerski
Dr Helen Czerski's time on the ice is nearing an end. The equipment is being packed up and they're ready to return to open water to begin the journey home.
Brain Yapping
Dean Burnett Blog
Can the Teenage Brain Ever Know ‘True’ Love? – Dean Burnett
A recent reddit post argued that brains that aren’t fully formed can’t know what love really is. This is, according to all evidence, nonsense.
Postcards from the Energy Frontier
Jon Butterworth Blog
The Tenth Anniversary of ‘Big Bang Day’ – Jon Butterworth
Ten years ago it was Wednesday, and at 10:28 in the morning Geneva time the first protons had just made the 27 km journey through the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. Prof Jon Butterworth on the tenth anniversary of switching the LHC on.
Lost in a Good Game
Pete Etchells Blog
Video Games are Dying – Pete Etchells
Pete Etchells has been thinking a lot about dying lately. Old blog networks, video games...
Dirty Science
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Who Are You? – Dr Brenna Hassett
As a professional digger-up of dead people, I’ve got a lot of explaining to do. A lot of people wonder, quite rightly, whether what I do – bioarchaeology – is entirely savoury. Dr Brenna Hassett investigates DNA tests.
Notes in the Guestbook
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The ‘Must Read’ Pile of Books You Haven’t Actually Read
Book Shambles co-host Robin Ince is a well known bibliophile. The problem with this is it means his house is in danger of collapsing under the weight of books. So he set about trying to part with 1000 books he's never going to get round to reading. Which got us thinking.
An Inquiring Mind
Ginny Smith Blog
What is WEIRD? – Ginny Smith
Too often psychology experiments fail to take basic demographics of their participants into consideration.
The Late Night Vomit Tour Diary…Not Mine – Robin Ince
When touring on Fridays and Saturday nights, I try as often as I can to remain in my performing location. Public transport contains a word variety of people caught in either slightly too high spirits or bent over in pain.
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Not Quite Ready to Come Home – Helen Czerski
Dr Helen Czerski’s time on the ice is nearing an end. The equipment is being packed up and they’re ready to return to open water to begin the journey home.
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Why Can’t Whatever Niche I am be Enough?
Some kind of balance, not just black and white, would come in handy. Robin reflects on a day of books, stand up and ticket sales.
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It is Not Just My Story – Robin Ince
“I’ve been thinking about my mother a lot recently. Today would have been her birthday”. Robin Ince reflects on reading from his book for the first time.
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What is WEIRD? – Ginny Smith
Too often psychology experiments fail to take basic demographics of their participants into consideration.
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