Cage-fight children: club licence to be reviewed after alarm at 'barbarity' | Society | The Guardian
“Getting more young people doing sport is great but I do ask myself
whether it really does have to be in a cage,” Hunt told the BBC. “It
feels very barbaric and I know there are concerns about children that
young doing a sport like that. I think if adults choose to do it,
that's one thing … I suppose I do share some of the shock that I think
many of your viewers will feel.”
When I first read this paragraph I couldn’t help but think: how
perfectly posh Tory those words are, it fits the stereotype perfectly.
entitled: Tories | posted: 10:59Z
filed: /politics/society | 2 comment(s)
Faster than light particles found, claim scientists | Science | The Guardian
Scientists at the Gran Sasso facility will unveil evidence on Friday
that raises the troubling possibility of a way to send information
back in time, blurring the line between past and present and wreaking
havoc with the fundamental principle of cause and effect.
I wonder what Hume would have to say about this. For him reliance on
causality is an animal instinct that we have no choice about; does
this disprove him because we’re capable of conceiving otherwise on
this occasion or is it just the case that we are applying our
induction at a higher level?
entitled: Faster than light neutrinos & causality | posted: 10:57Z
filed: /science/physics | 2 comment(s)
Currently on a nine win streak (admitted one left in the first few
mins of game) and this has given me enough points to get me up into
the top 8 of my Bronze league division. The top two people with their
masses of points look rather forever bronze, if my understanding of
the Blizzard ranking system (sketchy) is correct—I’m more likely to
get promoted to silver before amassing that many points.
Pleased to have finally got the five win streak achievement but kind
of want off the streak now because it is giving me ladder anxiety
which I don’t usually get.
Edit: Got to 14 wins before losing to a 3 rax random player. Total
two of those were immediate quits.
entitled: Gotta get up to the top 8 | posted: 14:25Z
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Now that I’ve come to terms with my results from the end of last year
I’m developing a new attitude towards my work that I’ll try to briefly
record here. What has not worked is expecting lots of myself. Saying
that I am just being lazy and should just do it. Telling myself I can
do more, believing tutors and parents who tell me to just do it,
clearly hasn’t worked. Realistically, what I do do is all I am
capable of doing, it seems, and I should accept that.
My attitude is made different by the fact that I now can’t do the very
best thing I wanted to do, which is to stay at Oxford to do a masters,
and that means that I don’t need a first anymore: going somewhere
else, I think a decent 2:1 will be fine. I might get a first if I
worked amazingly well but realistically I can’t do that, it’s outside
of my ability range, and I should accept that. The result is the same
and I end up happier for the lack of self-pressure. Oxford graduate
study has plenty of disadvantages (orthodoxy being the biggest), so
it’s not all that bad.
Is this giving up? No, it’s accepting the truth about my abilities.
I’m going forward far more relaxed about things. Cheered, maybe I’ll
do better after all. Hope I have expressed myself well here.
entitled: A new attitude towards my work | posted: 10:20Z
filed: /writing/diary | 0 comment(s)
