CHIRAC IS JUST BEING FRENCH
The French have always hated the way �inferior� British and now American culture has been so influential worldwide. They think that �Gloire� (glory) should always belong primarily to France. So they have always been very prone to lumping together the despised British and Americans as �The Anglo-Saxons� — even [...]
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�FRANKENSTEIN� SCIENCE
This is the sort of thing that would have Greenies frothing at the mouth. How DARE our scientists gaily produce such �unnatural� organisms. Should be a law ….
�I recently heard a presentation on this crazy guy, Peter Schultz, who has engineered bacteria to use para-aminophenylalanine instead of amber codons. The bacteria synthesize [...]
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IRAQ
The latest claim that British Prime Minister Tony Blair is losing support for war on Iraq is nicely answered here.
Just a reminder here of what the American military freed the Afghans from. And some good news about what Afghanistan is like now.
There is a good site here that spells out the comparison between Saddam [...]
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OTHER READING
Today�s academic paper from my past is here and deals with the fact that many people who answer questionnaires will say �Yes� to anything. Ways of dealing with this problem are analysed but it is pointed out that many psychologists simply ignore the problem — making their survey results pretty meaningless.
Lovely! America�s [...]
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CHIRAC IS JUST BEING FRENCH
The French have always hated the way �inferior� British and now American culture has been so influential worldwide. They think that �Gloire� (glory) should always belong primarily to France. So they have always been very prone to lumping together the despised British and Americans as �The Anglo-Saxons� — even [...]
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�FRANKENSTEIN� SCIENCE
This is the sort of thing that would have Greenies frothing at the mouth. How DARE our scientists gaily produce such �unnatural� organisms. Should be a law ….
�I recently heard a presentation on this crazy guy, Peter Schultz, who has engineered bacteria to use para-aminophenylalanine instead of amber codons. The bacteria synthesize [...]
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IRAQ
The latest claim that British Prime Minister Tony Blair is losing support for war on Iraq is nicely answered here.
Just a reminder here of what the American military freed the Afghans from. And some good news about what Afghanistan is like now.
There is a good site here that spells out the comparison between Saddam [...]
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OTHER READING
Today�s academic paper from my past is here and deals with the fact that many people who answer questionnaires will say �Yes� to anything. Ways of dealing with this problem are analysed but it is pointed out that many psychologists simply ignore the problem — making their survey results pretty meaningless.
Lovely! America�s [...]
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MY ACADEMIC PAST
In my now rather distant past I taught psychology for two years and sociology for 12 years at major Australian universities. During that time I did a lot of research and that research resulted in my getting over 250 papers published in the academic journals. In the age of Google and [...]
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FROGGY MATTERS
The Wicked one point out that the French have despised Americans for at least a century.
This article by Semmens points out that giving the U.N. a power of veto over American war plans for Iraq amounts to giving Jacques Chirac a veto and points out what an unsavoury character he is to be wielding [...]
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