A proposed new law restricts the appearance, in films, of non-local pigeons. Here is the complete text of the bill: HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 2203 FILED ON: 1/12/2009 HOUSE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . No. 816 AN ACT RELATIVE TO PIGEONS IN MOTION PICTURES. Be it enacted […]
Some kids don’t want to spend time
For families who live apart, the notion that ‘quality time’ comes from time spent together as a family is rather exclusionary. Not only that, but Pia Christensen from the University of Copenhagen believes that underlying this notion is an assumption that family time is ‘good’ for children. After listening to the views of English children […]
Why commuters do not read
One of the curses of my new job is having to commute from Cambridge into London two or three (or four or five …) days a week. Commuting must be good for something. One of the things I find it good for is primate behaviour research. I have found, for example, than commuters do not […]
Michael Jackson: difficult to let go
This screen capture — a Google News summary from Thursday morning, July 2, 2009 — demonstrates that, a mere days after the death of Michael Jackson, people struggle to capture the man’s essence. Perhaps some time, years from now, historians will make sense of the phenomenon: