Just read this. And weep. Because even if you don’t think it is true, I know that it is.

I used to think, fresh-faced youth that I was, that if you just took the time to explain things to the public, they would make the “right” decisions. I’ve long since abandoned that view. Ben Goldacre explain...

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Neat! The Human Flower Project reports on the Capitola California Begonia Festival, making the delicious point that bulb growers aren't really interested in the flowers, at least commercially. So the Festival is a classic example of recycling rubbish.

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The world turns. And at 5 in the morning, I’m cold enough to have to get up and go find a blanket. I manage to fall straight back to sleep. On the walk to the station, the traffic is so heavy that there’s no question of zipping across while the lights are red. And on the platform, the train is late...

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It is awful what has happened, and the blame game is unedifying at best. But there's some interesting stuff happening on the margins. Like Mark Childress's list over at the New York Times. No. 14 is, of course, the give-away.

Never been there. But posts like this make me wish I had.

The Human Flower Project links to an impressive-sounding attempt to gather what we professionals call TK, or sometimes IK, on the flowers of India. Rather than simply copy her links here, I suggest you visit Julie's site and jump off...

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