By David
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February 8, 2007
The turkeys that provide this meat have hugely overdeveloped breasts and are a travesty of what a turkey should be
Joanna Blythman in the BBC’s How turkey became a fast food
By David
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November 12, 2006
Stephen Jay Gould published the collection of essays Hen’s Teeth and Horses Toes
way back in 1984, 22 years ago; so when the National Geographic recently published an article headlined Dolphin With Four Fins May Prove Terrestrial Origins
I was less than suprised, except by the exaggerated claims for the significance of the find. As Jan Haugland wrote recently about the same story,
By David
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January 30, 2006
Peter Black, AM, approvingly cites Mary Riddell’s piece in the Observer. They’re both bonkers.
By David
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January 24, 2005
A few methods of divination:
- pyromancy (by fire)
- ophiomancy (by snakes)
- pegomancy (by spring water)
- anemoscopy(by wind)
- daphnomancy (by burning laurel wreaths)
- hippomancy (by horses)
- tiromancy (by cheese)
to which we may now add podomancy:- divination by iPod. Method: switch iPod to shuffle songs and try to determine what your iPod’s choices are telling you.
By David
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November 9, 2004
