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		<title>Review: The King James Bible</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Nov 2011 16:39:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So I must start this review by clarifying that this book is a pretty long read with plenty of variation, both in plot and prose, so do not  expect some neat novel you can rip through in an afternoon. It&#8217;s a slog and some may question whether it&#8217;s worth it at all. The fame of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dreamingspiresdilettante.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8301158&amp;post=509&amp;subd=dreamingspiresdilettante&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>things I have learnt during my doctorate</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Oct 2011 16:27:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://dreamingspiresdilettante.wordpress.com/?p=425</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[[NOTE: This has been sat in drafts a fair while because I was a little embarassed how little I claimed to have learnt that was of any value. Also it wasn't very funny. I'll just add the disclaimer that this (probably) isn't a comprehensive list.] that awesome trick where you spin a pen &#8217;round your [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dreamingspiresdilettante.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8301158&amp;post=425&amp;subd=dreamingspiresdilettante&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Reel Science: Thor</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Sep 2011 20:27:39 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Film]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[natalie portman]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[So, I should perhaps have made it more clear in the last post, but these reviews may contain spoilers and I&#8217;m almost certainly not going to think about it or make a note when they arise. Now, I promise that not all these reviews are going to be about superhero movies and I&#8217;m slightly apologetic [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dreamingspiresdilettante.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8301158&amp;post=499&amp;subd=dreamingspiresdilettante&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Reel Science:</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Sep 2011 21:37:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[superman]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://dreamingspiresdilettante.wordpress.com/?p=493</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[So, given that I pretty often write about film and probably equally often write about science, I&#8217;ve decided that I&#8217;m going to combine the two. When I see a film (if I remember) I will make a note of the scientific merit of it and then try and write an (absolutely not comprehensive, but hopefully) [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dreamingspiresdilettante.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8301158&amp;post=493&amp;subd=dreamingspiresdilettante&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>reasons 3d cinema is absolutely terrible</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Aug 2011 13:20:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Rise of the Planet of the Apes]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I saw Rise of the Planet of the apes yesterday with a friend of mine and, before agreeing to see it, made him confirm that it was definitely not going to be in 3d, given that I hate that &#8216;technology&#8217; with a fiery venom. Why do I have such a vitriolic response to such a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dreamingspiresdilettante.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8301158&amp;post=486&amp;subd=dreamingspiresdilettante&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>gods, angels and superheroes</title>
		<link>http://dreamingspiresdilettante.wordpress.com/2011/08/18/gods-angels-and-superheroes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Aug 2011 16:54:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://dreamingspiresdilettante.wordpress.com/?p=444</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s a well-observed tenant of life that people constantly strive to become something greater than they are. For some, this means educating themselves in an effort to expand their mind and gain greater intellectual insight into the world around them; for others going to the gym and attempting to make their body approach some ideal [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dreamingspiresdilettante.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8301158&amp;post=444&amp;subd=dreamingspiresdilettante&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>london riots</title>
		<link>http://dreamingspiresdilettante.wordpress.com/2011/08/09/london-riots/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Aug 2011 13:40:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[[credit for the poster fabricator from the election must go to http://www.andybarefoot.com/politics/cameron.php]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dreamingspiresdilettante.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8301158&amp;post=475&amp;subd=dreamingspiresdilettante&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Pavlov&#8217;s prof</title>
		<link>http://dreamingspiresdilettante.wordpress.com/2011/07/08/pavlovs-prof/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jul 2011 11:53:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I began my doctorate almost three years ago and soon after I started, I began an experiment. Now, being an experimental physicist, this may not seem like a particularly shocking revelation. The nature of the experiment is probably not what you&#8217;d expect though. I have been performing a simple psychological experiment for three years on [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dreamingspiresdilettante.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8301158&amp;post=466&amp;subd=dreamingspiresdilettante&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>a story I wrote (..quite a while a go, but just thought to put up)</title>
		<link>http://dreamingspiresdilettante.wordpress.com/2011/07/05/a-story-i-wrote/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jul 2011 15:15:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Years later you would wake in the night remembering the lines so amateurishly marring the sketch, but when you first learnt to structure your pictures at the instruction of your father, you felt you’d been given a way to formalise the barrage of images projected behind your eyes by the mind you were yet to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dreamingspiresdilettante.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8301158&amp;post=461&amp;subd=dreamingspiresdilettante&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>modelling one, no-one, one hundred thousand (and everything)</title>
		<link>http://dreamingspiresdilettante.wordpress.com/2011/05/15/modelling-one-no-one-one-hundred-thousand-and-everything/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 May 2011 15:23:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So I&#8217;m just reading a book by an Italian chap called Pirandello called uno, nessuno e centomila. It pretty much strikes me as a rather oldschool  pastiche of what we&#8217;d consider today to be a pop-psychology book. There&#8217;s a framing device (in this case the protagonist whose wife innocently comments on the subtle tilt of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dreamingspiresdilettante.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8301158&amp;post=450&amp;subd=dreamingspiresdilettante&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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