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Author: Richard Carter

A fat, bearded chap with a Charles Darwin fixation.

‘Ever Since Darwin’ by Stephen Jay Gould

Book review: ‘Ever Since Darwin’ by Stephen Jay Gould

Reflections in Natural History.

Published 04-Mar-2017
Filed under: Uncategorised Genres: History, Science Tags: stephen jay gould

Vegetating

Ten-a-day fruit and veg?

Published 25-Feb-2017
Filed under: Nonsense Tags: conversations, fruit, jen, smoking, vegetables

Marmalaise

Marmalade in decline (or not).

Published 25-Feb-2017
Filed under: Nonsense Tags: compare and contrast, food

Corbyn speak

Corbyn spouts management speak.

Published 24-Feb-2017
Filed under: Nonsense Tags: brexit, politics, twitter

Stretford Mall irony

When doors aren't necessarily always open.

Published 20-Feb-2017
Filed under: Nonsense Tags: irony

Wall of sound

I always, incorrectly, assumed Blowzabella stopped making music years ago.

Published 19-Feb-2017
Filed under: Nonsense Tags: fitz, music, videos

Compare and Contrast

Musk v Harkness.

Published 17-Feb-2017
Filed under: Nonsense Tags: compare and contrast

Re. the ‘newspaper’ that delivered Brexit

Wikipedia editors have voted to ban the Daily Mail as a source for the website in all but exceptional circumstances after deeming the news group “generally unreliable”.

Published 17-Feb-2017
Filed under: Nonsense Tags: brexit, daily mail, media

BBC science fail

There is nothing ‘coincidental’ about a lunar eclipse occurring during a full moon.

Published 11-Feb-2017
Filed under: Nonsense Tags: astronomy, eclipses, science

Busy man

gents' loo at the Birch Service Station on the M62 this morning: a businessman operating two hand-driers simultaneously, one for each hand.

Published 07-Feb-2017
Filed under: Nonsense Tags: motorway service stations, personal productivity

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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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