- Very moving story Nicky Yarris served 22 years before 3 DNA samples from the rape scene roved not to be is. Then further investigation revealed a whole series of flaws.

OK he claimed that guards weren't allowed to touch him as a form of torture. When you know he had Hepatitis C you realise it might have been for the guards safety.

- Scientific American magazine podcast covered history- Includes 15 minutes of lecture to American Skeptics. Tale of their early campaign to expose fake mediums, which almost came acropper when they came across the medium who did her seances in the nude. This proved to be too much of a distraction for most of the team, but thankfully Harry Houdini rushed back to save the day.
.... The debunking team discredited they then moved back to firmer ground and churned out articles like how the telephone will never catch on. "the telegraph is precise, wheras the telephone operators are bound to mis-spell words and get things wrong when they write out the messages down for customers " Apparently not conceiving that the customers would speak direct to each other. podcast

- Melvyn Bragg - IOT Celt prog was flawed from the start cos he really wanted to believe, but 2 of the scientists said they did not exist. One claimed they did cos the languages exist today, but since pre-Romans didn't write we really don't know much about their language and customs

- updated my essay about Google PC395opinion

- BBC Crossing Continents report. The 2 main parties are siphoning off the money to build big houses, whilst the public live with unclean water and little electricity. A really appalling situation the 2 parties are virtually 2 families. Government contracts aren't put out too tender, but just given to relatives and sub-contracted. The president of Iraq is a Kurd from one of the parties

scienceandsociety podcast - Beijing scientist talked about - nano- material where an electric current can change the state from solid to liquid

- Interesting article on Radio Netherlands- Every year a village is taken over for a week for the international Lindy hop camp Sweden- 93 year old Frankie Manning teaches.

- Mp3 of radio4 theme

-James Randi said they are set to abandon the Million Dollar prize for any paranormal act in laboratory conditions, cos dealing with the nutcases detracts them from more productive work. So up the processing charge so someone can make a prifit and contract it out. There's no reason why JREF has to do the initial stages itself.

- I'll put all the death stats that normal people aren't aware of on a new page death-numbers.htm

- China road deaths - 81,000 a year (that's less than India) = 222 road deaths everyday, 53 million cars will grow to 140m, 1.3 bn
- 2007 work accidents killed 100,000 Chinese . So that's 180,000 per year. Also in the news was a count of 150,000 violent deaths in Iraq for 3 years since "end of war" not happy, but not absolutely mega mega

- Super- Crunchers title was going to be The End of Intuition cos it's about following numbers to make better decisions not intuition.
- E-harmony has a good dating algorithm
- Airlines will bump a new customer over a loyal one.

- I like to say men & women can not be defined by their sex, but he didn't say that men and women are the same he said that it's men who take the risks
- His explanation for gay - Humans have evolved to stay longer as children than other apes. This gives us an advantage cos we spend more of life playing and being creative. So the gene that makes you seek out the opposite sex kicks in late, but for some people it doesn't kick in they stay more playful and creative. .. I'm not sure I agree with this.

- From CBC Quarks- It was a rabbit skin disease which spread to people and came with Indians to America. White men wore clothes so only became infected through sexual contact and in non-tropical Europe the bacteria could only survive in the genitals

- acceptance of Brain Death in different culture - last year organ transplants from the brain dead

- from TWIS - In experiments after exposing male mice to fighting, they would go out looking for fights. It seems the dopomine released causes pleasure.
- What's new ? We already know young British peoole go out looking for fights. I guess there is there pleasure in losing i.e. some chemical is released, that's why people go to see soccer teams they know will lose.

- IDEA - The Argument club-providing happiness through argument
- "why are you here ? "
- "Inadequate that’s you"
- "or overconfident that’s you ?"

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