There's nothing a brain scan won't reveal
Science: Activity in Caudate Nucleus (a part of our brain) predicts our choices. That’s another part of our brain that seems to be moored in… Læs mere »There's nothing a brain scan won't reveal
Science: Activity in Caudate Nucleus (a part of our brain) predicts our choices. That’s another part of our brain that seems to be moored in… Læs mere »There's nothing a brain scan won't reveal
New glasses this morning. Ah, revelation! My 15″ Mac-baby now looks like it’s 17″. Nice. Have been constructing a Netvibes site for a paper I’m… Læs mere »All about being organised & turning the lights out
Tech: This is an absolutely brilliant post by a young PR wizard about technophobia. Particularly addressing privacy issues, something I often find myself discussing with… Læs mere »To eat meat or not, is that really the question?
Had nice Mother’s Day with flowers – hand-picked at real florist by young son – and womenly presents. It was an incredibly beautiful day, so… Læs mere »What makes you happy? I know and you don't…
Feminism: It being Mother’s Day tomorrow, the Times has asked six women, mainly writers, to write a letter to their children at 21 (they all… Læs mere »Musings before Mother's Day
Politics: Were you in favour of the war in Iraq? Check Bush’s “entry” speech here. Andrew Sullivan is embarrassed that he fell for it. I… Læs mere »Undo – it's doable now!
I’m afraid you’ll see many posts from me in the future looking like this. Since I started twittering I just seem to come across even… Læs mere »News from the world
I’ve now been twittering for a couple of weeks and am beginning to understand the workings of Twitter. For me it’s a place to harvest… Læs mere »Twitterism & loads of links
In Washington Post about viruses on social networking sites. It’s a very sober article, telling us the facts about the current viruses out there, how… Læs mere »Tech news of the day
As a comment to yesterday’s post about the web’s damaging influence on innocent young children, check this little (1.6 min) speech by Don Tapscott, which… Læs mere »Completely unrelated…
I’ve written a lot about this lately and now it’s a major media storm here. If you haven’t read my last entry on the subject,… Læs mere »More, yes MORE about youngsters and social networking
I’m sure you’re thinking, oh my, hasn’t she got anything better to do than changing the layout of that bl…… blog all the time. The… Læs mere »Hey, stop, don't go away, it's me!
because it’s not our fault, is it? The British papers are all running after Baroness & neuroscientist Susan Greenfield today. She has a message that… Læs mere »How social networking must be corrupting our children…
After months of hesitation and no-saying to Twitter I’ve given in. As I understand it, Twitter can be more useful than Facebook when you want… Læs mere »Twitter and more on online safety for children
This is an issue that causes rather heated discussions in the media, in schools and among parents. The discussion is a close cousin to the… Læs mere »Online safety and children
is another word I like a lot. My dear old Dad, bless him, has often said that the word procrastination defines him. I think that’s… Læs mere »Procrastination
but I never seem to get down there! One reason is that the nearest library is in Woking, our local town, which I’m not particularly… Læs mere »I want to go to the library
I’m trying my hand with some new podcasts now that I’m exercising three times a week. You can hear a lot of podcasts in 4-5… Læs mere »Tools for a better understanding of conflicts