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Author: Richard Carter

A fat, bearded chap with a Charles Darwin fixation.

It's Good to Gossip

Why corporate sponsorship of harmless scientific research is bad.

Published 09-Dec-2001
Filed under: Nonsense Tags: hype, science

e-mail to BBC Religion about scepticism

Complaining about the dig at scepticism in that morning's 'Thought for the Day'.

Published 01-Dec-2001
Filed under: Nonsense Tags: bbc, correspondence, scepticism

Snippets - November 2001

Snippets from November 2001.

Published 30-Nov-2001
Filed under: Nonsense Tags: snippets

Snippets - October 2001

Snippets from October 2001.

Published 31-Oct-2001
Filed under: Nonsense Tags: snippets

Letter to the Hebden Bridge Times

Complaining about the meaningless comparison between the rarity of Exmoor ponies and the rarity of giant pandas.

Published 14-Oct-2001
Filed under: Nonsense Tags: correspondence, hebden bridge times

Snippets - September 2001

Snippets from September 2001.

Published 30-Sep-2001
Filed under: Nonsense Tags: snippets, soccer, sport

Letter to the Guardian Newspaper

Concerning an article about the British and the Germans

Published 01-Sep-2001
Filed under: Nonsense Tags: correspondence

Snippets - August 2001

Snippets from August 2001.

Published 31-Aug-2001
Filed under: Nonsense Tags: snippets

Junk Mail and Unsolicited Phone Calls

How to avoid them.

Published 30-Aug-2001
Filed under: Nonsense Tags: spam

Open Letter to Homebase

Letter of complaint to Homebase about their crap customer service.

Published 21-Aug-2001
Filed under: Nonsense Tags: correspondence, gardening

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Newer posts Page 1 … Page 327 … Page 329 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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