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Author: Richard Carter

A fat, bearded chap with a Charles Darwin fixation.

Eight-hundred years ago today

Today is the 800th anniversary of Liverpool's charter.

Published 28-Aug-2007
Filed under: Nonsense Tags: liverpool

Break like the wind

Wind turbines unreliable and dangerous.

Published 27-Aug-2007
Filed under: Nonsense Tags: energy, environment, windpowerstations

INJUNS!

Spotted in Hebden Bridge.

Published 26-Aug-2007
Filed under: Nonsense Tags: hebden bridge, injuns, yorkshire

Close, but no cigar

BBC narrowly defeated in headline-of-the-week bid.

Published 26-Aug-2007
Filed under: Nonsense Tags: headlines

Shambhala lies: Dawkins tries mumbo-jumbo

If people from different religious backgrounds can have violent disagreements, why not different snake oil merchants?

Published 25-Aug-2007
Filed under: Nonsense Tags: acupuncture, alternative medicine, chakra, homeopathy, mumbo-jumbo, placebos, psudoscience, reiki, rixology, scepticism

Void

Scientists puzzle over enormous void.

Published 24-Aug-2007
Filed under: Nonsense Tags: astronomy, birmingham

The craic was moighty

Jen and I are back from a family reunion in Ireland.

Published 20-Aug-2007
Filed under: Nonsense Tags: alcohol, guinness, ireland, jen

Hiatus

Off to see a man about a Guinness.

Published 16-Aug-2007
Filed under: Nonsense Tags: ireland

The Mouse

Carolyn rescues one.

Published 15-Aug-2007
Filed under: Nonsense Tags: alcohol, carolyn

Calling a spade a spade

Observer Astologer objects to being called an enemy of reason - bollocks!

Published 12-Aug-2007
Filed under: Nonsense Tags: astrology, mumbo-jumbo

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On the Moor

On the Moor: Science, History and Nature on a Country Walk
“…wonderfully droll, witty and entertaining… At their best Carter’s moorland walks and his meandering intellectual talk are part of a single, deeply coherent enterprise: a restless inquiry into the meaning of place and the nature of self.”
—Mark Cocker, author and naturalist
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