Start: 95.4 Last week: ??.? This week: 87.5
Thursday 2 November: Things have been very topsy turvy of late. There is no week 16, because I was away eating delicious foreign muck with no scales and a dead laptop. I’m skipping the number 16 to maintain the count of the number of weeks it has been...

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Sergeant Sarah Brown: It's so delicious. That Bacardi flavouring certainly makes a difference.
Nathan Detroit: Oh, yeah. Nine times out of ten.
Sergeant Sarah Brown: You know, this would be a wonderful way to get children to drink milk.

The above exchange comes in the middle of one of t...

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What's the difference between “cloning” and “somatic cell nuclear transfer”? Roughly double the public approval rating, according to New Scientist magazine. The article reports on research by Kathy Hudson of the Genetics and Public Policy Center in Washington DC, who discovered that while 29% of A...

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Run, don't walk, to watch Richard Dawkins deal with Stephen Colbert.

This is the second time I've seen Richard deal with a Stephen, and by far the funnier of the two. The other time the Stephen came off as pathetic. Indeed, scales fell from my eyes. (I must see if I can find the little thing I w...

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Quite by coincidence, given yesterday’s post about weighing, the Washington Post has an article about a programme to help people keep weight off by reaping the benefits of daily weighings. Brown University scientists recruited people who had lost 10 per cent of their body weight over the past tw...

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