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Author: Richard Carter

A fat, bearded chap with a Charles Darwin fixation.

Cream cakes / colour blue

James Bond tops 'culture chart'.

Published 14-Sep-2007
Filed under: Nonsense Tags: meaningless comparisons

Bad example, chaps

Potato did not fuel human evolution.

Published 10-Sep-2007
Filed under: Nonsense Tags: evolution, science

Balls by name…

Faith schools set for expansion.

Published 10-Sep-2007
Filed under: Nonsense Tags: education, faith schools

Nanny State turns into Midwife State

Health in Pregnancy Grants on the way.

Published 09-Sep-2007
Filed under: Nonsense Tags: nanny state

Intelligent cataloguing

In which I do some book-shuffling in Waterstones.

Published 08-Sep-2007
Filed under: Nonsense Tags: books, creationsism, intelligent design, religion, science

Elephants' Ears

Tribute to the late, great Luciano Pavarotti.

Published 08-Sep-2007
Filed under: Nonsense Tags: music, stense

His reputation precedes him

Thierry Henri's huge presence.

Published 03-Sep-2007
Filed under: Nonsense Tags: soccer

Bron Wennyly

Carolyn doesn't climb Brown Willy.

Published 02-Sep-2007
Filed under: Nonsense Tags: carolyn, conversations

Celebrity Iraq-watch

Charlize Theron 'wants US soldiers home'.

Published 02-Sep-2007
Filed under: Nonsense Tags: celebrities, iraq

1, 2, 3, 4, __

What's the missing number?

Published 02-Sep-2007
Filed under: Nonsense Tags: iq, mathematics, occam's razor, puzzles

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Newer posts Page 1 … Page 204 … Page 332 Older posts

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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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