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"360852405690179584","","","2013-07-26 20:01:32 +0000","<a href=""http://www.floodgap.com/software/ttytter/"" rel=""nofollow"">TTYtter</a>","Define ""clear"" Mogadishu: http://t.co/fr4NwFlMq2","","","","http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/thpop/thpop_20130723-1000b.mp3"
"334368922310676480","","","2013-05-14 18:05:38 +0000","<a href=""http://www.floodgap.com/software/ttytter/"" rel=""nofollow"">TTYtter</a>","Romans &amp; medieval Xtians both thought women were sexually insatiable. So where did ""Lie back and think of your country"" come from? #radio4","","","",""
"334365448063823873","","","2013-05-14 17:51:49 +0000","<a href=""http://www.floodgap.com/software/ttytter/"" rel=""nofollow"">TTYtter</a>","Only within the last 200 years that a European city has overtaken the size (1mm people) of Juvenalian Rome. #radio4","","","",""
"334359389601419265","","","2013-05-14 17:27:45 +0000","<a href=""http://www.floodgap.com/software/ttytter/"" rel=""nofollow"">TTYtter</a>","ancient Romans slipping Greek into their speech would be like Britons today using modish French (serviette, settee, gauche) #radio4","","","",""
"334348576341778432","","","2013-05-14 16:44:47 +0000","<a href=""http://www.floodgap.com/software/ttytter/"" rel=""nofollow"">TTYtter</a>","""Satire"" comes from the Latin for ""mishmash"" #radio4","","","",""
"334088373893480448","","","2013-05-13 23:30:50 +0000","<a href=""http://www.floodgap.com/software/ttytter/"" rel=""nofollow"">TTYtter</a>","0–12-month-olds *already* developing theories of other peoples' minds/intentions. #primitives #radio4","","","",""
"334080714679144448","","","2013-05-13 23:00:23 +0000","<a href=""http://www.floodgap.com/software/ttytter/"" rel=""nofollow"">TTYtter</a>","Babies are born knowing all 600 phonemes. Learn to ignore the irrelevant 550 during the second 6 months of life. #radio4","","","",""
"321332719785213953","","","2013-04-08 18:44:25 +0000","<a href=""https://mobile.twitter.com"" rel=""nofollow"">Mobile Web (M2)</a>","""Basel III and Solvency 2 sound like blockbuster sequels...but much less exciting"" #radio4","","","",""
"298530578716848128","","","2013-02-04 20:36:51 +0000","<a href=""http://www.floodgap.com/software/ttytter/"" rel=""nofollow"">TTYtter</a>","""Shaka"" = ""intestinal beetle"" in Zulu. Another virginal birth I guess? #radio4","","","",""
"292387351899029504","","","2013-01-18 21:45:51 +0000","<a href=""http://www.floodgap.com/software/ttytter/"" rel=""nofollow"">TTYtter</a>","""Communists saw Daoism as mere superstition"" ""No more than 500 Daoist priests by cultural rev"" #radio4","","","",""
"292383800376299521","","","2013-01-18 21:31:44 +0000","<a href=""http://www.floodgap.com/software/ttytter/"" rel=""nofollow"">TTYtter</a>","""Rulers needed to show that the celestial bureaucracy fitted harmoniously with their temporal power"" #radio4","","","",""
"292383205913403393","","","2013-01-18 21:29:23 +0000","<a href=""http://www.floodgap.com/software/ttytter/"" rel=""nofollow"">TTYtter</a>","""De=our individual instantiation with the Dao"" ""Not every individual goes thru cycles of life with the same vigour"" #radio4","","","",""
"292379440099495937","","","2013-01-18 21:14:25 +0000","<a href=""http://www.floodgap.com/software/ttytter/"" rel=""nofollow"">TTYtter</a>","""Daoism, yellow turbans a bit like Pentacostalism in Christianity"" #radio4","","","",""
"292376763038838784","","","2013-01-18 21:03:47 +0000","<a href=""http://www.floodgap.com/software/ttytter/"" rel=""nofollow"">TTYtter</a>","Joangzi: ""Argumentation, rhetoric, and logic isn't helping us understand reality either"" #radio4","","","",""
"292375817953095681","","","2013-01-18 21:00:01 +0000","<a href=""http://www.floodgap.com/software/ttytter/"" rel=""nofollow"">TTYtter</a>","""As opposed to other texts of the period concern with Eu Topia, the Joangdze concerns individual happiness"" #radio4","","","",""
"292375165210349568","","","2013-01-18 20:57:26 +0000","<a href=""http://www.floodgap.com/software/ttytter/"" rel=""nofollow"">TTYtter</a>","""Shamanism preceded Confucianism"" ""we are controlled by the unseen world"" #radio4","","","",""
"292374485330432002","","","2013-01-18 20:54:44 +0000","<a href=""http://www.floodgap.com/software/ttytter/"" rel=""nofollow"">TTYtter</a>","""2nd century AD Laozi was the 'alternative' to Kongfuzi, esp if you didn't like Confucian politics"" #radio4","","","",""
"292371275849019392","","","2013-01-18 20:41:58 +0000","<a href=""http://www.floodgap.com/software/ttytter/"" rel=""nofollow"">TTYtter</a>","""∄ consistency to the Dao De Jing"" … as opposed to the Bible? #radio4","","","",""
"292365565866164225","","","2013-01-18 20:19:17 +0000","<a href=""http://www.floodgap.com/software/ttytter/"" rel=""nofollow"">TTYtter</a>","""One of Daoism's core ideas = that we can prolong life by conforming with The Way"" #radio4","","","",""
"292045446484996096","","","2013-01-17 23:07:15 +0000","<a href=""http://www.floodgap.com/software/ttytter/"" rel=""nofollow"">TTYtter</a>","""Gunpowder was developed by Daoists searching for the elixir of life"" ""subdue KNO₃"" #radio4","","","",""
"263009781307035650","","","2012-10-29 20:09:53 +0000","<a href=""http://www.floodgap.com/software/ttytter/"" rel=""nofollow"">TTYtter</a>","SSn coming from Afghanistan during the Bronze Age to Mediterreanean (int'l trade ~4k BC). Later Pb + Sn + Cu #radio4","","","",""
"263008719049224192","","","2012-10-29 20:05:39 +0000","<a href=""http://www.floodgap.com/software/ttytter/"" rel=""nofollow"">TTYtter</a>","""Much more intuitive to smelt Cu than Fe. Cu melts into a crucible; Fe you remove impurities &amp; are left with an ugly cauliflower"" #radio4","","","",""
"263006836985315330","","","2012-10-29 19:58:11 +0000","<a href=""http://www.floodgap.com/software/ttytter/"" rel=""nofollow"">TTYtter</a>","Early ironworks used only meteoritic iron. (higher Ni content) #radio4","","","",""
"263006095172308993","","","2012-10-29 19:55:14 +0000","<a href=""http://www.floodgap.com/software/ttytter/"" rel=""nofollow"">TTYtter</a>","Some kind of ""fall of civilisation"" alike to Fall of Rome around 2000 B.C. (end of Bronze Age) #radio4","","","",""
"262999114030125056","","","2012-10-29 19:27:29 +0000","<a href=""http://www.floodgap.com/software/ttytter/"" rel=""nofollow"">TTYtter</a>","Jadite axes traded in 3000 B.C. all across Western Europe (continental trade). #radio4","","","",""
"259465463094992896","","","2012-10-20 01:26:01 +0000","<a href=""http://www.floodgap.com/software/ttytter/"" rel=""nofollow"">TTYtter</a>","""Bertrand Russell had an epiphany on the way to the tobacconist: 'Great G-d in Boots, the ontological argument is sound!'"" #radio4","","","",""
"258771498704191488","","","2012-10-18 03:28:27 +0000","<a href=""http://www.floodgap.com/software/ttytter/"" rel=""nofollow"">TTYtter</a>","""Some Amazonians distinguish 200 greens"" #radio4","","","",""
"258771071770165249","","","2012-10-18 03:26:45 +0000","<a href=""http://www.floodgap.com/software/ttytter/"" rel=""nofollow"">TTYtter</a>","""Children don't experience placebo from injections by people in white coats. They do display placebo to mummy kiss it better"" #radio4","","","",""
"258764482459873280","","","2012-10-18 03:00:34 +0000","<a href=""http://www.floodgap.com/software/ttytter/"" rel=""nofollow"">TTYtter</a>","""Blinded people sometimes 'see' colours gold &amp; purple many years after losing sight, together with an intense pain"" #radio4","","","",""
"258479524755427328","","","2012-10-17 08:08:15 +0000","<a href=""http://www.floodgap.com/software/ttytter/"" rel=""nofollow"">TTYtter</a>","""Consciousness is of different type for different species"" ?? #radio4","","","",""
"258479109561278465","","","2012-10-17 08:06:36 +0000","<a href=""http://www.floodgap.com/software/ttytter/"" rel=""nofollow"">TTYtter</a>","Language necessary for consciousness-of-a-self, past, future, and make value judgments? I don't think so... #radio4","","","",""
"258477847096733696","","","2012-10-17 08:01:35 +0000","<a href=""http://www.floodgap.com/software/ttytter/"" rel=""nofollow"">TTYtter</a>","""Charles Darwin's father thought he wouldn't amount to anything because all he did was hunt"" #radio4","","","",""
"258464054484549632","","","2012-10-17 07:06:47 +0000","<a href=""http://www.floodgap.com/software/ttytter/"" rel=""nofollow"">TTYtter</a>","""Imagination seems to be a product of subtle structure of neural nets. We can turn it off"" #radio4","","","",""
"258461380812877824","","","2012-10-17 06:56:09 +0000","<a href=""http://www.floodgap.com/software/ttytter/"" rel=""nofollow"">TTYtter</a>","""We need virtual machines to think about consciousness"" #radio4","","","",""
"258458971613061120","","","2012-10-17 06:46:35 +0000","<a href=""http://www.floodgap.com/software/ttytter/"" rel=""nofollow"">TTYtter</a>","""If you destroy the mesincephala reticula formation, that's the end of consciousness"" #radio4","","","",""
"258454654915063808","","","2012-10-17 06:29:26 +0000","<a href=""http://www.floodgap.com/software/ttytter/"" rel=""nofollow"">TTYtter</a>","""Cerebral cortex, if unfolded, size of a large table napkin: 3e7 neurons and 1e9 connections"" #radio4","","","",""
"258452949192302592","","14917754","2012-10-17 06:22:39 +0000","<a href=""http://www.floodgap.com/software/ttytter/"" rel=""nofollow"">TTYtter</a>","@vruba listening to #radio4 thinking about our discussion of simulations. I think actually a solipsistic simulation of an experiencing...","","","",""
"258449559527755778","","","2012-10-17 06:09:11 +0000","<a href=""http://www.floodgap.com/software/ttytter/"" rel=""nofollow"">TTYtter</a>","""Brain scientists rather over-sell themselves"" -a brain scientist #radio4 #ADHD #ritalin","","","",""
"258447287108395008","","","2012-10-17 06:00:09 +0000","<a href=""http://www.floodgap.com/software/ttytter/"" rel=""nofollow"">TTYtter</a>","""Medieval philosophers recognised that ∃ conditions which *incline* us to an action without #causing us to do it"" #radio4","","","",""
"258447071676346368","","","2012-10-17 05:59:18 +0000","<a href=""http://www.floodgap.com/software/ttytter/"" rel=""nofollow"">TTYtter</a>","""Rome's 12 tables provide for reckless or recently disturbed men to squander the family's resources"" #furiosis #radio4","","","",""
"258446824438894592","","","2012-10-17 05:58:19 +0000","<a href=""http://www.floodgap.com/software/ttytter/"" rel=""nofollow"">TTYtter</a>","""Neuroscientists underestimate the law"" #mens_rea ""the homicide law of Draco distinguishes between intended &amp; unintended"" #radio4","","","",""
"257773962631737346","","","2012-10-15 09:24:36 +0000","<a href=""http://www.floodgap.com/software/ttytter/"" rel=""nofollow"">TTYtter</a>","""Children from the age of 3 months to 5 years are innate racists"" #evopsych #radio4","","","",""
"257765786263891969","","","2012-10-15 08:52:07 +0000","<a href=""http://www.floodgap.com/software/ttytter/"" rel=""nofollow"">TTYtter</a>","""Newton's usage of the word SPECTRUM [ghost] of light points to its [psychological] origin"" #radio4","","","",""
"257762439200915456","","","2012-10-15 08:38:49 +0000","<a href=""http://www.floodgap.com/software/ttytter/"" rel=""nofollow"">TTYtter</a>","""Kepler was an astrologer"" #radio4 Character like peasants tying pumpkins to affect their shape","","","",""
"257759580371689472","","","2012-10-15 08:27:27 +0000","<a href=""http://www.floodgap.com/software/ttytter/"" rel=""nofollow"">TTYtter</a>","""It's very unusual in history for scholars &amp; craftsmen to work together"" #radio4","","","",""
"257757741832089600","","","2012-10-15 08:20:09 +0000","<a href=""http://www.floodgap.com/software/ttytter/"" rel=""nofollow"">TTYtter</a>","""17th century Gregory had a barometer and thus was regarded as a wizard with magical weather-forecasting tools"" #radio4","","","",""
"257756340708057089","","","2012-10-15 08:14:35 +0000","<a href=""http://www.floodgap.com/software/ttytter/"" rel=""nofollow"">TTYtter</a>","""Genius = like sanctity. And the Nobel prize is the canonisation of secular saints"" #radio4","","","",""
"257748848401850368","","","2012-10-15 07:44:48 +0000","<a href=""http://www.floodgap.com/software/ttytter/"" rel=""nofollow"">TTYtter</a>","""The word 'scientist' was coined in 1833 by William Hewell"" -Patricia O'Farragh #radio4","","","",""
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