Month: December 2011
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Ridding Social Media of Pointlessness in 2012
In the last few days, we’ve seen a couple of storms in teacups. There was the BBC’s “Faces of 2011 – the women” (or “pandagate”), and then yet another Jeremy Clarkson faux pas. In the former, widely picked up on by social networks like Twitter and Facebook, and quickly followed up on by newspapers, we…
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Radio Times – 25 December 2011
It’s Christmas! I hope you’re having a happy one. One thing I suspect that you might be doing is watching some TV today. So – if you haven’t been given too many comedy DVDs or boxsets that you want to tuck into straight away – what do the main channels hold in store? As ever,…
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Book Sculptures
In Cambridge at the Cambrige University Press bookshop, there’s an amazing 12 Days of Christmas window display. An artist named Justin Rowe has fashioned these, and they’re amazing. They’re all winnable in a charity raffle, but I went in and while I was tempted by How to Fold It: The Mathematics of Linkages, Origami and…