Incompatibility of science and corrupt society

This lovely story of a Castilla y León government tender for a small investigative boat which already included the name of the winner, a company linked to the governing party, reminded me of this beautiful idea re (some of) the Greeks in Martha’s dad’s book: Travel alone was not enough to create ‘science’. These thinkers…

Google Noticias

Enquiry from a Spanish emigrant to the UK: I have no assets in Spain. What could the AEDE / the Spanish justice system do to me if I set up an offshore aggregator using IP spoofing to avoid shutout and financed by ads?

That the apple is the forbidden fruit is NOT down to translation error

One Alfred López, rehashing what he has found in a thousand other places on internet: ¿Sabías que fue un error de traducción lo que convirtió a la manzana en el ‘fruto prohibido’? […] si cogemos la Biblia original (escrita en hebreo) y la repasamos no hay ni un solo momento en el que aparezca nombrada…

East London justification of the greengrocer’s apostrophe

Walking home through Hackney this evening, I met a charity shop with a sign that read, “Donation’s welcome.” “Are you sure about that?” I asked the proprietor. “Donation is welcome,” he explained. So “Apple’s £2 / kilo” means “Apple is two pounds a kilo,” there’s obviously a dialect singular / plural thing going on, and…

Correlation/causation

Pass the biscuits, Mirandy. But how about some serious scientific advice re the surfeits most likely to maximise lifespan?

Christmas slum evictions around Montcada

“No tenemos conocimiento de que viva nadie, sí de la existencia de construcciones”, asegura un portavoz municipal. Neither will they surely have noticed the far greater numbers of people living in shanties and mud along the other bank of the river – the same pattern is to be found along chunks of the Llobregat, and…

Insuring Amsterdam

Stiltsville in various Germans. With a filthy joke, and several less filthy ones.