You may gather it has been sometime since this site has had new material for you to view. That is about to change and this is my explanation as to why. First of all though, where the hell have I been? Well, you may recall that the main purpose of this site for me was [...]
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Where the hell have you been?
Posted: 1,February 7, 2012 in Knowledge, Nystagmus, Personal, Welfare benefitsTags: First Buses, First Manchester, John Sanders, NN, nystagmus, Nystagmus Network, Ocular albinism, Twitter
Edie Anne Glaser – Navigating Nystagmus With Your Doctor
Posted: 1,April 16, 2010 in Books, Knowledge, Nystagmus, PersonalIf it weren’t a little tacky I would insert a smiley at the end of the next sentence. I suspect that the audience for this is going to be rather limited! This is therefore less a review and more a heads up to those to whom it may be relevant that this books exists. If [...]
A. C. Grayling – The Choice Of Hercules: Pleasure, Duty and The Good Life in the 21st. Century
Posted: 1,March 26, 2010 in Books, KnowledgeTags: A. C. Grayling, Birkbeck College, Financial Times, Hercules, Oxford, Philosophy, Prospect, Royal Society of Literature, sociology
Look, just don’t ask me how I got here alright? It’s the usual story (so to speak). I read a review. It captured my imagination. It tackles something big (a life of duty versus a life of pleasure supposedly) and, yes, I have no recall of where I read the review (Observer books section when [...]
Steven D. Levitt And Stephen J. Dubner – Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores The Hidden Side Of Everything
Posted: 1,January 22, 2010 in Books, KnowledgeTags: Freakonomics, Stephen J. Dubner, Steven D. Levitt, Superfreakonomics
It should be fairly obvious by now that my reading is a little behind the rest of the world. So, five years behind the so called zeitgeist, and, having read more than enough of the books that trailed in its’ wake, I finally arrive at Freakonomics at almost the precise point they’re publishing the follow-up. [...]