February 2010
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Robin Hood
I’m no economist, but the Robin Hood Tax seems like a good idea. I would like to understand it further though. It seems to be a rebrand of the Tobin Tax (they are the same thing, right?).
Instead of a website telling me only why it is a good idea, I want a place that gives these things balanced views. It made me think of Debategraph - a site that attempts to make the best arguments on...
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Seal song
I’m loving these natural synths that are coming out of the Weddell Sea, off the West coast of Antarctica. Big up the Leptonychotes weddellii.
The frequency range of the Weddell Seal’s vocalisations are apparently 80 Hz - 24 kHz. Us humans typically have ranges of 85 Hz - 155 Hz for blokes, and 165 Hz - 255 Hz for woman. It makes me think, we are...
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“From all accounts, the world has been getting worse and worse ever since it was...”
– Idle thoughts of an idle fellow, Jerome K. Jerome (1886). (Thanks George!)
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Samamidon
There was a song I once loved for a fleeting moment, but I became distracted and forgot about it. Then I was sitting in the Union Chapel the other week, waiting to see an artist who goes by the name of Final Fantasy when this chap called Sam Amidon came on stage…
It was his album “All is well” I picked up in 2008, recommended by the musically obsessive Boomkat record store. I...
The swimming song
I learnt to play a song on my cousin’s mandolin last week. It is a lovely song and it goes like this…
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The life of the world to come
The Mountain Goats released a nice album last year called ‘The Life of the World to Come’. Each track on the album is inspired by a different bible verse. I like themed albums - another one I just picked up is the Darwin Song Project, a collaboration of eight artists who were sent on a retreat to write an album of songs that have a resonance and relevance to the life of Charles Darwin...