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Every year of this blog’s existence, I wrote a 10 October post, marking the day’s significance for me. Today we added to its significance. This post marks the day, let’s leave it in silence – we can talk more tomorrow.

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Two weekends ago I went to see The Adjustment Bureau, starring Matt Damon and Emily Blunt. To be honest, I found it rather too fantastical. Not the sci-fi aspect mind you, the love story! I am not a big fan of the stereotypical love story, as they usually seem very far removed from reality to [...]

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Since this blog does not publish on any sort of regular schedule (even “one post per week” proves hard), I recommend you subscribe if you are interested in its content. There are a couple of ways in which you can do that: Subscribe to the feed with your favourite news reader (such as Bloglines, Netvibes [...]

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I nearly withdrew the previous post. Actually, I did, for a couple of minutes, then changed my mind while I was writing this one. Why? Because it was supposed to be part of a two-post series, and the second post is just not coming out right. (I’ve already written a thousand words, which seems like [...]

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Borrowing from the back of my copy of Victor Frankl’s Man’s Search for Meaning: At the heart of his theory is a conviction that the primary human drive is not pleasure but the pursuit of what we find meaningful. It seems absurd to borrow words from a book on surviving Nazi death camps when I’m [...]

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Prior to relocating, I discovered some of my grandfather’s old books on our family bookshelf that really interested me. On my previous visit home, I kidnapped three, and decided they’re now mine. For a while, anyway — my sister might object to the way I just phrased that , especially due to the margin notes! [...]

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I can’t remember when exactly I watched the movie Wanted, but I do remember the two blog posts it inspired me to write. So here’s the first… Why is “you have to believe!” so pervasive in our culture? The “you have to believe!” meme appears to be hiding around every corner. Including Wanted, wherein the [...]

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Have you ever seen a cat play with a mouse? If you have, you will understand the context of my first Ask the Audience question: Are Cats Evil? That question is actually too broad, take it more limited in scope: is the way they play with mice evil? …encouraging a mouse to try and run [...]

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How about we discuss things one chapter at a time, but on the same blog post? We can kick off a new post after some chapters if the discussion actually takes off. The first six chapters and the dating techniques they introduce during their investigation (give me a shout if I miss something): Chapter 1: [...]

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Today we start with a series of blog posts surrounding Chris Turney’s book, Bones, Rocks and Stars. The book is all about “the science of when things happened”, from things recent to things quite old: namely the Earth. (He mentions the age of the universe too, but not in that much depth.) Today’s post: only [...]

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