Friday, 5 April 2013

List of things I have done whilst procrastinating:

-Read up on all of the work experience placements it turns out I've missed out on due to not deciding what I want to do with my life.

-Watched University Challenge

--Followed Jeremy Paxman on Twitter

-Unfollowed Jeremy Paxman after realising it wasn't the real Jeremy Paxman. Jeremy Paxman doesn't have twitter. (WHY NOT?)

-Read Richard Dawkins' Twitter, and saw a book which is called "Beyond the Hoax" by Alan Sokal and assumed it was about religion. Actually about a guy who wrote a meaningless article with pretentious language quoting famous post-modernist 'social scientists' and then told everyone it was a meaningless hoax of an article. Classic.

-Saw an Uberfact about a bacteria called Toxoplasma Gondii, which is an interesting bacteria as it causes schizophrenia in people, but is present in 80% of cats. Finally, a scientific explanation for crazy cat ladies. Noticed that it was an example of Dawkins' "Extended Phenotype" gene. Wondered if everything on the internet relates stems from Dawkins?

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