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Michael Mann has a letter in the Star-Tribune mainly discussing his conduct over the Soon and Baliunas affair and the use of the word "denier". Read it here .

I wish. I am still in the throes of setting up for a massive sample load and none of the scientific suppliers put prices on their websites. Except Sigma-Aldrich. Thanks, folks, that saves me a lot of phoning. For all the rest I have to hunt down the components, record the catalogue numbers and phone their sales desk in the morning to get prices. I won't order tomorrow, I don't yet know when the samples...

Tony Blankley of National Review Online writes : "In the last fortnight: 1) The NAACP called the tea party racist; 2) Andrew Breitbart called the NAACP racist; 3) Shirley Sherrod called Republican opponents of Obamacare racists; 4) Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack called Shirley Sherrod racist; 5) many in mainstream media called Andrew Breitbart racist; 6) Howard Dean called Fox racist; and,...

Charged with increasing cycling in Edinburgh, The Bike Station are repeating a challenge to encourage friends and families to get involved in cycling. The challenge runs between 2nd and 22nd August and there is a range of prizes. Check here for details. The Bike Station is at 250 Causewayside.

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Finally, here is the follow up post I promised after the brief one I e-mailed earlier. I am delighted to report that, after Jennie, I and others encouraged our readers to complain to the Early Learning Centre regarding the wording on their website which suggested that girls should dress up in nurses' outfits while the doctors' ones were for boys, the relevant section has changed from this: "For...

YouGov - First round poll table.tableizer-table {border: 4px solid #CCC; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;} .tableizer-table td {padding: 4px; margin: 3px; border: 1px solid #ccc;} .tableizer-table th {background-color: #104E8B; color: #FFF; font-weight: bold;} Candidate Membership Trade Unions MPs/MEPs Electoral College David Miliband 38 34 39 37 Ed Miliband 32 26 30 29 Diane...

Watching Newsnight right now from London and it has the rare opportunity for me to see Alex Salmond in action. The reason is due to Lockerbie being the top UK story for the evening as Senator Robert Menendez, the Senator in charge of the review into BP's involvement (if any) in the release of Al-Megrahi, is suggesting that he may come to the UK to find answers to his questions. It really has been maddeningly...

Ron Paul . We're missing politicians who are prepared to stand up and speak for the people. Will we ever have a Ron Paul? I may not agree with some of his policies but I do agree with his common sense which has been replaced by non-sense in this country. Why don't our politicians make more use of video/audio to reach their electorate? I still receive paper newsletters, via the Royal Mail, from my...

My laptop has been taken over by 11 year olds but I've just checked my e-mail & found a message from the Early Learning Centre in response to the complaint I sent them on Tuesday night regarding the way their dressing up outfits were marketed, specifying, among other things, that nurses' outfits were for girls & doctors' outfits for boys. They have removed that language. I'm speechless but...

You scored 93.333 out of 100 masculine points, 47.5 out of 100 feminine points, and 60.833 out of 100 androgynous (neutral) points. Check your score here . Substantive sexism post coming up shortly. This blog is proudly sponsored by If you would like to view this entry with a pale colour scheme click here . If you would like to subscribe to my blog click here for RSS or here for atom .