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Odd goings on in the West Bank

Al-Jazeera showed some really distressing footage of the aftermath to the latest IDF foray into town planning. But on this occasion the Israelis had made the element ...

Odd goings on in Guyana

You may know that Venezuela has had a longstanding claim to ownership of the Essequibo region of Guyana and that Britain has to do the occasional gunboat rattling to keep h ...

But hear this

The Premier League has confirmed it will have two transfer windows this summer due to “exceptional” circumstances surrounding the Club World Cup. The first transfer window will op ...

I hear there's to be a super-duper new FIFA World Club Championship this summer with the thirty-two best clubs in the world competing.
Assuredly, with the name we've given it.

So Arsenal will be ...

Odd goings on in Myanmar

The Chief of the Military Junta has announced 'free and fair elections' will be held in December this year. The last time they announced this they got such a raspberry fro ...

Doesn't it all go back to Big Bang? If that's true (we must take a vote) then everything must be getting further and further away all the time, including our time. Unless it's already rebounding back. ...

Whoops! I just posted it up again in the Brain/Mind thread. But as you say, reading things twice is a sine qua non. That's why I deliberately posted it up twice.

What nobody seems to understand is that Britain is the most mature industrial country in the world--on account of being where the Industrial Revolution happened. The life-cycle of industrial states is ...

The agreement will be declared null and void by any international court of Ukraine's choosing, at any time of Ukraine's choosing, on the grounds it was dictated under compulsion. I am surprised Scott ...

This is the general problem expressed as a Socratic dialogue
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In the Pub with M J Harper Dec 26, 2024
What’s he on about this time?

Bloke in Pub: What a load of old bollock ...

I'll throw this in as a quickie. It doesn't quite fit but all here will see the relevance.
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Paradigms I Have Loved Sep 3, 2024
It all goes back to The Structure of Scientific Revo ...

Apparently the initial beaver introduction was either illicit or accidental. (In, I think, the Otter Valley in Devon. Someone was having a larf.) It was decided--for reasons unknown to me--not to remo ...

I hadn't thought about the slave trade and genetics. Presumably you don't allow male slaves to breed with native women and presumably you don't waste cargo space on slave women (nor do they turn up ve ...

Makes Wiley think that the Anglo-Saxons might have never actually existed...
I am teetering on that brink myself.

Maitland started from the Angevins
Me too, on the whole.

and it was his histor ...

Where is Ishmael now I need him?
There may be a faulty assumption in that question but the short answer is Tanzania. It requires teams of native bearers carrying messages in forked sticks to the near ...

Author	Message
Topic: War on Terrorism
Mick Harper Replies: 1977 Views: 667615	Forum: Politics Posted: 12:59 pm Subject: War on Terrorism
Mick Harper Replies: 1977 Views: 667615	Odd goings on in the West Bank Al-Jazeera showed some really distressing footage of the aftermath to the latest IDF foray into town planning. But on this occasion the Israelis had made the element ...
Topic: War on Terrorism
Mick Harper Replies: 1977 Views: 667615	Forum: Politics Posted: 12:42 pm Subject: War on Terrorism
Mick Harper Replies: 1977 Views: 667615	Odd goings on in Guyana You may know that Venezuela has had a longstanding claim to ownership of the Essequibo region of Guyana and that Britain has to do the occasional gunboat rattling to keep h ...
Topic: The Importance of Sport
Mick Harper Replies: 4288 Views: 1654587	Forum: NEW CONCEPTS Posted: 11:04 am Subject: The Importance of Sport
Mick Harper Replies: 4288 Views: 1654587	But hear this The Premier League has confirmed it will have two transfer windows this summer due to “exceptional” circumstances surrounding the Club World Cup. The first transfer window will op ...
Topic: The Importance of Sport
Mick Harper Replies: 4288 Views: 1654587	Forum: NEW CONCEPTS Posted: 10:47 am Subject: The Importance of Sport
Mick Harper Replies: 4288 Views: 1654587	I hear there's to be a super-duper new FIFA World Club Championship this summer with the thirty-two best clubs in the world competing. Assuredly, with the name we've given it. So Arsenal will be ...
Topic: War on Terrorism
Mick Harper Replies: 1977 Views: 667615	Forum: Politics Posted: 9:22 am Subject: War on Terrorism
Mick Harper Replies: 1977 Views: 667615	Odd goings on in Myanmar The Chief of the Military Junta has announced 'free and fair elections' will be held in December this year. The last time they announced this they got such a raspberry fro ...
Topic: Planets-as-suns, and more
Mick Harper Replies: 102 Views: 94512	Forum: Astrophysics Posted: 8:38 am Subject: Planets-as-suns, and more
Mick Harper Replies: 102 Views: 94512	Doesn't it all go back to Big Bang? If that's true (we must take a vote) then everything must be getting further and further away all the time, including our time. Unless it's already rebounding back. ...
Topic: The role of belief in knowledge
Mick Harper Replies: 112 Views: 443074	Forum: APPLIED EPISTEMOLOGY Posted: 7:24 am Subject: The role of belief in knowledge
Mick Harper Replies: 112 Views: 443074	Whoops! I just posted it up again in the Brain/Mind thread. But as you say, reading things twice is a sine qua non. That's why I deliberately posted it up twice.
Topic: Questions Of The Day
Mick Harper Replies: 4930 Views: 2020689	Forum: Politics Posted: 7:14 am Subject: Questions Of The Day
Mick Harper Replies: 4930 Views: 2020689	What nobody seems to understand is that Britain is the most mature industrial country in the world--on account of being where the Industrial Revolution happened. The life-cycle of industrial states is ...
Topic: Politics, The Final Frontier
Mick Harper Replies: 1810 Views: 565092	Forum: Politics Posted: 6:44 am Subject: Politics, The Final Frontier
Mick Harper Replies: 1810 Views: 565092	The agreement will be declared null and void by any international court of Ukraine's choosing, at any time of Ukraine's choosing, on the grounds it was dictated under compulsion. I am surprised Scott ...
Topic: Mind & Brain
Mick Harper Replies: 16 Views: 1597	Forum: Psychology Posted: 6:20 am Subject: Mind & Brain
Mick Harper Replies: 16 Views: 1597	This is the general problem expressed as a Socratic dialogue ------------------ In the Pub with M J Harper Dec 26, 2024 What’s he on about this time? Bloke in Pub: What a load of old bollock ...
Topic: Mind & Brain
Mick Harper Replies: 16 Views: 1597	Forum: Psychology Posted: 6:02 am Subject: Mind & Brain
Mick Harper Replies: 16 Views: 1597	I'll throw this in as a quickie. It doesn't quite fit but all here will see the relevance. ---------------- Paradigms I Have Loved Sep 3, 2024 It all goes back to The Structure of Scientific Revo ...
Topic: Crying Wolf
Mick Harper Replies: 841 Views: 485299	Forum: Life Sciences Posted: 5:53 am Subject: Crying Wolf
Mick Harper Replies: 841 Views: 485299	Apparently the initial beaver introduction was either illicit or accidental. (In, I think, the Otter Valley in Devon. Someone was having a larf.) It was decided--for reasons unknown to me--not to remo ...
Topic: Red Hair: The Product of Race Mixing (and Sea Travel)
Mick Harper Replies: 17 Views: 34214	Forum: Life Sciences Posted: 5:36 am Subject: Red Hair: The Product of Race Mixing (and Sea Travel)
Mick Harper Replies: 17 Views: 34214	I hadn't thought about the slave trade and genetics. Presumably you don't allow male slaves to breed with native women and presumably you don't waste cargo space on slave women (nor do they turn up ve ...
Topic: Historiography
Mick Harper Replies: 44 Views: 36254	Forum: History Posted: 3:38 pm Subject: Historiography
Mick Harper Replies: 44 Views: 36254	Makes Wiley think that the Anglo-Saxons might have never actually existed... I am teetering on that brink myself. Maitland started from the Angevins Me too, on the whole. and it was his histor ...
Topic: Planets-as-suns, and more
Mick Harper Replies: 102 Views: 94512	Forum: Astrophysics Posted: 2:51 pm Subject: Planets-as-suns, and more
Mick Harper Replies: 102 Views: 94512	Where is Ishmael now I need him? There may be a faulty assumption in that question but the short answer is Tanzania. It requires teams of native bearers carrying messages in forked sticks to the near ...