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		<title>Call Off Christmas</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 20:02:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some interesting &#8220;MOOCs will change everything&#8221; stuff on the webby-media today. Although I blogged about this a short while ago, I am tempted to have another go. But while I think about this, here is something much sillier. The Royal Institution have decided to trademark the phrase &#8220;Christmas Lectures&#8221;. No really. If you give a [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=andyxl.wordpress.com&#038;blog=640835&#038;post=3230&#038;subd=andyxl&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Holiday Harper</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2013 08:42:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just over a year back i wrote a post glue-ing together video-music clips from four ages of Joni Mitchell. There is a strange feeling of resolution tracing the history of creative artists &#8211; musicians, actors, writers &#8211; whose lives have paralleled your own, maybe ten years ahead. Because I can&#8217;t quite work out whether I [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=andyxl.wordpress.com&#038;blog=640835&#038;post=3209&#038;subd=andyxl&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>End of the University Part II/III : online education</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 May 2013 09:43:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Oh dear. Everybody knows you should never write Paper I unless you really are going to do Papers II, III etc. Posterity looks unkindly on failed pomposity. Back in November I wrote End of the University : Part I which was about the Browne report and a naive approach to &#8220;student choice&#8221;. I think perhaps [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=andyxl.wordpress.com&#038;blog=640835&#038;post=3203&#038;subd=andyxl&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Pippa Plugging (and a bit of Chas)</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2013 18:48:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Had a rather jolly evening last night. I went to a book launch. I&#8217;d never been to one before and didn&#8217;t quite know what to expect &#8211; lots of air kissing and long fingernails I guess. In fact it was full of nice normal looking peoples, who divided into three tribes &#8211; aspiring writers, civil [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=andyxl.wordpress.com&#038;blog=640835&#038;post=3194&#038;subd=andyxl&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Korean controversy posturing</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Apr 2013 20:40:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Emerging from a spot of lurgi so maybe just a  postette. I just watched the controversial Korean undercover documentary. Given the fuss, I was surprised to see there was no mention of students whatsoever. They just said they were on a tour. If the LSE hadn&#8217;t made a fuss, no-one would have had any idea [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=andyxl.wordpress.com&#038;blog=640835&#038;post=3190&#038;subd=andyxl&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Cosmology Conundrum</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Mar 2013 09:43:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some colleagues have suggested that my posting on Planck Day was overly frivolous, given the huge importance of what Planck has achieved. (Nicely written up by Andrew Jaffe.) Other colleagues have suggested that Planck Day was bad press, as it was such a huge public non-event, with a big fuss about mild parameter adjustment. I [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=andyxl.wordpress.com&#038;blog=640835&#038;post=3182&#038;subd=andyxl&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>George, God, and the Grapefruit : Ten Things I Learned</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Mar 2013 11:14:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Been watching the ESA Planck live press junket George show thingy. Well, everybody and his hairdresser will be writing up their well considered Planck thoughts over the next hour and a half, so I thought I would just summarise some personal lessons. The follow-on press release is here. Apparently there will be more serious stuff [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=andyxl.wordpress.com&#038;blog=640835&#038;post=3176&#038;subd=andyxl&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Wild Northern Skies</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Mar 2013 12:18:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Only connect, as Goethe said. Or was it E.MForster? Or did I already already use that gag in an earlier post? Anyhoo. Two or so weeks ago commenters on my own nuclear blog post made me eat humble pie , liberally sprinkled with Thorium. Last week I was in Thurso, in the far distant north [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=andyxl.wordpress.com&#038;blog=640835&#038;post=3150&#038;subd=andyxl&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Thorium Plug</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Feb 2013 12:11:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I emerged from my slumbers this morning, I absorbed the latest radio chatter about British Gas &#8211; investing wisely, or fleecing the consumer ? All a bit sensitive because of the Government &#8220;dash for gas&#8221;, what with those EDF Frenchies sueing protesters and so on. (See this Monbiot article). Contrast yesterday morning, when Sue [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=andyxl.wordpress.com&#038;blog=640835&#038;post=3142&#038;subd=andyxl&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Softly Fading</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Feb 2013 22:09:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kevin Ayers died yesterday. If you search out http://www.kevin-ayers.com/ the page you arrive at says &#8220;this domain has expired&#8221;.  A grim accidental joke. There is a rather good obituary in the Guardian. It seems that by his bed a note was found that said &#8220;you can&#8217;t shine if you don&#8217;t burn&#8221;. Ohhhh&#8230;. shivers. So &#8230; [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=andyxl.wordpress.com&#038;blog=640835&#038;post=3100&#038;subd=andyxl&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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