The following video is from a series called “Why It’s Bad For You” and it discusses genetically modified organisms (GMOs). It is a short and well-edited watch but please do read my list of observations that follow it! . It starts with the assertion that our access to information is filtered by ‘global media corporations’. This strikes me …
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Category:Scepticism
Colour Changing Card Trick…
Rise Of The Retrovirals…
I watched Rise of the Planet of the Apes this evening, which had been recommended (and lent) to me by JHB. He is very kind with such things, even though it sometimes takes me several years to return a DVD. I expect most of you have seen it and marvelled at the effects that seamlessly integrate …
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Mozart…
I have heard it said that the music of Mozart has a uniquely helpful effect upon the brain; that it changes the brain in ways that no other music can. Indeed, you can buy specially selected collections of Mozart pieces on CD to play to yourself to improve your performance in tests or to increase …
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Hunting Again…
I went to the Boxing Day meet of the Avon Vale Hunt in Lacock yesterday; much as I did last year. The Daily Mail has a splendid photo of the meet in which you might spot a Summerfieldian. It was quite an interesting day because last week the RSPCA successfully prosecuted the Heythrop Hunt for …
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More Food Scares…
Of all the things I get fed up with, one of the most persistent is the way that science is reported in newspapers. To me it does not seem good enough to phrase a piece of research in an inaccurate way, present it to the public and then revel in the outraged reaction. Phrases like ‘Frankenstein foods‘ …
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Bottled Water…
Looking at the statistics for UK bottled water consumption is interesting. In 1980 we drank 30 million litres; by 1990 it had risen to 420 million litres; in 2000 it was 1.42 billion litres and 2010 is set to top 2.09 billion litres of bottled water consumed. I was interested by this paragraph from the …
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A Long Absence…
I know it is unacceptable but I have not felt inspired over the busy summer holidays to write anything profound for the blog. With the term up and running smoothly now it really is time to put pen to paper. I want to write about meat from cloned cows, the Telegraph article about red wine being good …
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Odds And Ends…
Congratulations to Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov for winning the Nobel Prize in physics for their work on graphene. You will have read about it here because this blog is at the cutting edge of science innovation! Much has been made of the fact that they came to their discovery by ‘playing’ with sellotape and …
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Told You So…
I am not keen to blame the woes of the world on TV, or computer games. It seems to be a very easy excuse. Research in recent years has suggested that there is a link between too much time spent watching TV and psychological problems in young people. But what, the sceptics cry, of those …
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