James' Empty Blog

Honestly. What's the point in being on the other side of the world if not to be able to see interesting astronomical phenomenon that are...

The Japanese Meteorological Agency is starting up a new early warming system for earthquakes at the start of October - of course earthquake...

An interesting example I spotted on Andrew Gelman's blog. UK readers will remember a medical test where 6 people took a particular drug ...

Great news. According to a new survey , almost 60% of Japanese actually think that foreigners are deserving of human rights. Of course, that...

Interesting to see Nature jumping on the no job prospects for PhDs and postdocs bandwagon (via Pharyngula ). (Disclaimer - I haven't y...

Just in case anyone was under the misapprehension that the USA had cornered the market in right-wing nutcases: Japan activist posts finger t...

I know that not owning a TV probably hurts my Japanese comprehension. But with adverts like this , (for rental of "24" season 6 DV...

I think it is clear that at least one of the following propositions is true: (1) the human species is very likely to go extinct before devel...

Sorry to lead on any Zaurus fans with the title - it's not truly a new Zaurus, but merely new to me. The Zaurus line is long since defun...

Via email, I hear that this paper from Stephen Schwartz is making a bit of a splash in the delusionosphere. In it, he purports to show tha...