“There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.”                                       –Mahatma Gandhi

I have a nasty habit of liking things in fast forward. I like speed. I like my computer to function quickly. I like to drive fast. […]

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“There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.”                                       –Mahatma Gandhi

I have a nasty habit of liking things in fast forward. I like speed. I like my computer to function quickly. I like to drive fast. […]

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Lest Phelps and the Texas Supreme Court leave the unfortunate impression that the US is the sole repository of lunacy in the world, Ben Goldacre’s latest column is about linking mobile phone signals to suicides — there’s a bit of hysteria in one of the British newspapers about it. I like his approach; he called […]

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I’m sure you’d like to pretend that you have nothing in common with a tapeworm.
A tapeworm starts off as an egg which then develops into a cyst. Inside the cyst is a ball-shaped creature with hooks that it can use to crawl around its host before growing into an adult. Many species are made […]

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