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I hate the idea of a comment policy. The regular readers are all intelligent enough to make any policy redundant. The tiny minority who are delusional enough to cause a problem wouldn’t seriously stop to read any comment policy anyway. But occasionally a perfectly good comment will either disappear or fail to appear. Here’s why.
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Wladimir Lyra’s following in the footsteps of Jack in his arXiv paper Naming the extrasolar planets. Currently planets are tagged after their parent star, so if we found a planet around α Ceti, it would be called α Ceti b. The b in lower case is used for the first planet to be found, c [...]

Science of the Invisible: How I learned to stop worrying and love FriendFeed
After reading this post I’m thinking about how I use FriendFeed. I think there are differences in how AJCann and I would use FriendFeed. There’s a large and active Life Sciences posse on FriendFeed, no so much for the Humanities. Still there’s [...]

Work continues into winter on the Okhta Center in St. Petersburg. This is a new commercial centre being built by Gazprom, the Russian natural gas company. When it’s finished the Okhta Center will have all the mod-cons necessary for a major commercial centre like monuments, desks and a large glass tower which will stand around [...]

I’ve had a go at setting up an archaeoastronomy channel on Youtube. Jsefick’s account is a bit of a goldmine for that as he has plenty of videos with interesting archaeoastronomical content. Searching for videos to favourite today, I found video above that there was an unauthorised landing at Fajada Butte. I found it extremely [...]

I sent an email to the British Chiropractic Association’s enquiries email account recently.
Dear BCA,
I read with interest that the use of manipulation is documented ‘as far back as 2700-1500 BC in China and Greece.‘ Could you point me to the documentation for Greece? I’m researching the use of ancient history in justifications for complimentary medicine [...]

This entry is part of a series, Bypassing the Press?» At the National Astronomy Meeting in 2004 I listened to Dr David Whitehouse, who I think was then Science Editor at the BBC, give advice about feeding science stories to the media. He made quite a few points, but there are three I remember.

Don’t [...]

Afarensis is celebrating five years of blogging. What makes it worth celebrating is that he’s still going strong with things like this defence of our much maligned cousins, rather than limping over the anniversary.
I also should have linked to his edition of 4SH earlier. My plan was to blog about whether or not carnivals should [...]