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Author: Richard Carter

A fat, bearded chap with a Charles Darwin fixation.

Me and my big mouth

Firstborn children are the cleverest.

Published 23-Jun-2007
Filed under: Nonsense Tags: iq

At the Cheese Shop, part 3

Conversation about cheddar.

Published 23-Jun-2007
Filed under: Nonsense Tags: cheese shop, conversations

Creative theft is vacuous topical

Video of 'Mr Pharmacist' by The Fall

Published 23-Jun-2007
Filed under: Nonsense Tags: music, the fall, videos

Bernard Manning

...dies.

Published 18-Jun-2007
Filed under: Nonsense Tags: deaths

Physics Saves the Day!

In which I unstick a stuck glass.

Published 17-Jun-2007
Filed under: Nonsense Tags: ann, bill, science

Father's Day Secrets

An email to the ever excellent PostSecret weblog made stuff come out my nose today.

Published 17-Jun-2007
Filed under: Nonsense Tags: postsecret

Straw

Carolyn's children's guinea pig died last Tuesday.

Published 10-Jun-2007
Filed under: Nonsense Tags: carolyn, conversations, poetry

Human Ingenuity

We've got what it takes.

Published 09-Jun-2007
Filed under: Nonsense Tags: advertising

Thought Police

Psychological assessments should become part of the UK driving test, a road safety expert has urged.

Published 09-Jun-2007
Filed under: Nonsense Tags: psychometic testing, stephen jay gould

Mad about Harry

Teaching assistant quit in protest at Harry Potter.

Published 09-Jun-2007
Filed under: Nonsense Tags: religion

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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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