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Lotion (Placenta is a Crazy Place)¹
Freud to Jung, 1911: NO must resist temptation... must not chase up Jung's pursuit of Gnosticism and pancake jellyfish imagery in medieval alchemy... must resist the birth / afterbirth theme in Gnostic...
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Beet degeneration
The discovery of traditional recipes for Mangel-Wurzel beer made the choice of ingredients for this year's Christmas Ale so much easier.The Interlattice further informs us that other uses for...
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Please swallow your Blue Dreamer And place the helmet on your head Three Men...
Crisis actors (may include infants)The upside of residing in a country where pundits and politicians are currently exercised with a 'Change-the-Flag' national-nonentity mocktroversy is that we have no...
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Star-Craving Mad
Truther twitstreams are a gift to lazy bloggers. We read them so you don't have to. For all intensive purposes.
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Partigrade hardigrade makes you tardigrade
Isn't it always the same? You wait and wait for someone to sequence the genome of the tardigrade Hypsibius dujardini, and then two come along at once.According to Koutsovoulos et al., the waterbear...
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Isn't it always the same? (Valley of the Kings edition)
You wait and wait for Egyptologists to discover concealed burial chambers that have remained undetected and undisturbed for millennia, and then two come along at once.The race for funds and headlines...
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New from Acme Inc.
That is either a very small capybara or a very large revolver.You've gotta ask yourself one question: "Do I feel lucky?"Stolen from John Ptak.
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I was going to write a Beckett / "Crying of Lot 49" mash-up, premised on the parallelism between the conspiracies of happenstance in the former that prevent Vladimir and Estragon from ever meeting...
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The light that never, never warms [Patients are dying The horses are dazed]
Let me draw your attention to Items 2 and 3IV laser acupuncture? Is this a thing? I was comfortable in my ignorance, believing that the medical applications of lasers are limited to self-cauterising...
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In these metal ways, in these metal days [We get mail]
Dear Riddled, I am VERY CONCERNED about the growing trend for groups of loud shouty people to feed their cats with hairy spiders and use the inevitable spider-leg-related regurgitation as their band...
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Timequake: force INFINITY
Remember Tim Burton's production of Dr Who, with Johnny Depp in the role of Davros, which he modelled after Rottwang in Metropolis? And the personal-robot Sherman Cyberman from the same assembly line...
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Shorter McCrone et al.: "Here are the conclusions from our clinical trial. The raw data are available to anyone with good-faith, scientific motives.""Professor Coyne has asked to reanalyse the data...
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Philosophy in the Bedroom, and coming from inside the house
People who should not be Architects #2: Philosophers.Ludwig Wittgenstein was embittered by the difficulties he encountered in implementing his ideas for the Stonborough House,* which left him hostile...
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Need Vaseline, the chafing!!
The Frau Doktorin had doubts about staying overnight at Waihaha Hut, having read old reports of a rat problem there, but I assured her that we could hang our backpacks out of reach of rodents. Also she...
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Beware of sharp triangles while kneeling
Not to walk on all-fours, that is the Law; and the Law is there to reduce the number of self-inflicted transorbital lobotomies.
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No matter where you go... there you are
"Send me a sign, oh nameless gods of the Interlattice!" I beseeched, albeit in a subdued voice, for the Frau Doktorin is unsympathetic whenever she overhears a seech, which she ascribes to my reckless...
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Article 1
Instances of the usage of 'stotious' abound in the oeuvre of Flann O'Brien. "Stotious" is my new favourite word, which I am endeavouring to engineer opportunities in the conversation to use. Along with...
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Ever since the beginning of time, man has yearned to destroy the sun
Humanity's second-oldest dream is to enmesh the moon within an immense web spun by giant vacuum-dwelling spiders...The third-oldest dream is to provide the military with better Kevlar for bullet-proof...
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