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Aug 11, 2011

Review : The Moral Landscape by Sam Harris

I saw Mr Harris at a disappointing IQ² debate recently — disappointing partly as his opponent seemed to either agree with most of what he was saying and partly because he was obviously very jetlagged. Really it was part of a book tour for The Moral…

David Durant in Desiderium Sciendi

Aug 12, 2011

Blimey

Days when even the Torygraph is saying that the state of the current troubles is caused by rot from the top.

David Durant in Desiderium Sciendi

Aug 12, 2011

Links to do with the riots

Scotland Yard Confirms It’s Using Facial Recognition Tech (even though it’s current effectiveness is highly debatable).

UK riots: Having learned nothing from Arab Spring, Cameron pursues a social media crackdown.

Big Brother Watch (1)

Big Brother Watch (2)

Big Brother Watch (3)

David Durant in Desiderium Sciendi

Aug 7, 2011

Super 8

We went to see Super 8 this evening. This is a film that has been getting five-out-of-five stars and wide universal acclaim. Does it live up to the hype? Well, it’s pretty good certainly but not quite that good. The cast are okay but only the latest Fanning (Elle) is outstanding.

David Durant in Desiderium Sciendi

Aug 30, 2011

Festivals

The lovely (and suddenly highly LJ-prolific) said:

> In ENTIRELY different news, I have decided that when I grow up, I’m going to win the lottery and then spend all my time travelling around
> the globe for the express purposes of going to gigs and festivals and being a sorta hobo music fangirl. (you can’t…

David Durant in Desiderium Sciendi

Aug 16, 2011

A post for David P.

and I have been having an interesting conversation in the comments of another of my posts about the rights people have after death. Simon maintains that the only people that have rights or are subject to laws are the living. I.e. wills are only about the rights of the living and the stated…

David Durant in Desiderium Sciendi

Aug 12, 2011

Does anyone else find this deeply creepy

Israeli family can freeze eggs of daughter killed in road accident.

“An Israeli family has been given legal permission to extract and freeze eggs from the ovaries of their 17-year-old daughter, who died in a road accident. The ruling by the magistrates court…

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