Back, and while I catch my breath and write something about it, here’s a little something to be getting on with.

What is your favourite song?
‘Expresse Yowerselfe’ by NWA.

Geoffrey Chaucer answers Norman Geras' penetrating questions.

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A gentle stroll among the seed of his seed was just what he needed. He called out for Jesus, and the Bolivian manservant appeared at his elbow.

Thanks, Luigi, for feeding my codophobia: Closing the book on the lousiest story ever sold.

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Some excellent hauls from the latest Tangled Bank. I've chosen two to share.

• Circadiana has a gentle, but extremely perceptive, assessment of a paper that, as he put it, “got some traction” because it deals with the sexy subject of circadian rhythms. Except that it doesn’t, as he explains so...

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Policy-makers seem to find it hard to set fisheries policy. Fisherfolk seem to find it as hard to abide by the policies that are set. So it is with a spring in my stride and a song on my lips that I report an apparently fully successful use of straightforward economic incentives to achieve a laudabl...

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My photographs are part of who I am, and I enjoy sharing them with people and getting their reactions. But I have never yet been entirely happy about the way I do that on the web. Flickr is marvelously simple, but everyone’s pages look essentially the same; only the photos differ, and while some w...

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