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		<title>Book Review: Humanity 2.0 What it Means to be Human, Past, Present and Future. by Steve Fuller</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Oct 2011 09:51:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Jones</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Paperback: 280 pages Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan (6 Oct 2011) Language English ISBN-10: 0230233430 ISBN-13: 978-0230233430 Product Dimensions: 21.2 x 13.8 x 2.2 cm &#160; Imagine a future world where technology lets us control our own destiny, enhance our physical and mental performance, extend our lives &#8211; perhaps indefinately. How will we come to see ourselves [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Cricket Thermometer &#8211; Fact or Fiction?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jun 2010 09:41:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Jones</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Can you tell the temperature by listening to how fast crickets chirrup in the evening?   Neil deGrasse Tyson thinks so, according to this Tweet yesterday evening: Sounds like a great idea, and as I&#8217;m up in the foothills of the San Gabriel mountains at the mo&#8217; &#8211; cricket central by my standards  &#8211; I thought [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Science and Art at the Getty</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jun 2010 18:01:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Jones</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s turning into quite an artsy fortnight.  On Thursday, I went to see Getty CEO Jim Wood interviewed at Caltech, then a visit with dinner at the Getty Center itself on Saturday night, before on Monday taking my chances with the holiday crowds at Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA).  Between times I&#8217;ve been [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Unweaving the Rainbow</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Feb 2010 10:09:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Jones</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I took this short sequence in the garden this afternoon.  No photo-shopping, just a nice illustration of the splitting of sunlight into it&#8217;s component colors by refraction through a water drop &#8211; shuddering in the breeze after a storm. The simplest of things, it put me in mind of John Keats&#8217;s supposed lament that Isaac [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Ramble Through Rationalism</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Dec 2009 12:15:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Jones</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The last thing I expected at a history talk with Stephen Fry was a discussion on the relative merits of rationalism and empiricism. But that&#8217;s what we got for part of the time at the Harper Collins Annual history Lecture at the Royal Institute of British Architects last month.   And for some reason, the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Darwin, Dennett and Dumbo&#8217;s Magic Feather</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Mar 2009 09:58:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Jones</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since I  posted this blog, the BHA have issued a video of the whole event. So for a summary &#8211; read the blog; for the whole smash&#8230;here it is! Disney&#8217;s Dumbo the Elephant got rid of his magic feather.   He realised it was  just a temporary crutch that gave him the courage to be all [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Two Cultures</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2009 14:26:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Jones</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Are you a scientist, or more of an artistic person?   Or maybe you&#8217;re a bit of both?  Do you care?  And does it matter? It mattered to CP Snow in 1959, when he wrote the essay ‘The Two Cultures’.   Snow saw society split into two groups, or cultures: the artistic intellectuals and the natural [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Run Over From Behind By A Bus</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jan 2009 03:21:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Jones</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Run over from behind by a bus.  That&#8217;s how physicist and skeptic Professor Robert Park wants to go when his time is up. I joined Bob Park at the Royal Institution this evening to hear him talk about his  new book &#8211; &#8216;Superstition: belief in the age of science&#8217;. To be candid, I&#8217;m not sure [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Inductive Turkeys Get Their Bacon Cooked At Christmas</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Dec 2008 22:24:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Jones</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As the last remnants of Christmas turkey fall to sandwich and soup, forget not Bertrand Russell&#8217;s musings on the fate of turkeys subscribing  to Francis Bacon&#8217;s philosophy of inductivist scientific reasoning. They don&#8217;t see it coming (photo WikiCommons) On his first day at the farm, the turkey noted he was fed at 9.00 am.  After this procedure had been repeated [...]]]></description>
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