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Continue reading →: Changing flights
United Airlines are in the news for dragging a passenger, Dr David Dao, off a flight to allow their own staff to take his seat. There is an assumption by airlines that some passengers won’t turn up for their flights, so they often overbook. In this case the flight was…
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Continue reading →: Memory – a new theory
It had been thought that our short-term memories were formed in the hippocampus and then ‘banked’ in the cortex. Recent research by the team at the Riken-MIT Center for Neural Circuit Genetics has shown that the brain makes two memories simultaneously, one for the present and one for a lifetime. The researchers were…
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Continue reading →: National disaster
OK, I exaggerate. Picking three horses in the Grand National that did not finish in the first 6 past the post is hardly a disaster, but it has wiped out the stake money for my online gambling hobby. On the plus side, I was prompted to organise the sweepstake at work and…
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Continue reading →: Trans
The LGBT community have made great strides in the quest for equality. Homophobia is not as rife in western democracies as it once was, and many countries in Europe have made same sex marriages legal. I have been on a Trans information briefing at work that made clear a number of…
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Continue reading →: Chinese province bans beards
April 1st is the time for fake news stories and tomfoolery. My own contribution was to credit Donald Trump with a ban on beards. As if he would propose such a ridiculous measure? This time the unbelievable truth is that a Chinese province, Xinjiang, has in fact brought in legislation to…
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Continue reading →: Trump bans beards
POTUS has used another Executive order to ban beards among serving US military personnel. This measure was taken to reduce the risk of Muslims infiltrating the ranks of the armed services and has caused great offence among the US Muslim community. A legal challenge has already been launched in the…
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Continue reading →: Waste
I watched a documentary that showed how birds were dying because of the amount of plastic waste that finds its way into the oceans. In some instances birds starved to death because their stomachs were too full of indigestible plastics for them to feed properly. Plastic bags are a big…
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Continue reading →: Disney’s ‘Gay Moment’
There are strange forces at work in the world. In Russia, the Minister for Sport wants to organise football hooliganism as a spectator sport, a Dutch presidential candidate wants to ban the Koran and Disney has produced a Power Ranger film with a Yellow Ranger, Trini who is trying to…
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