Not Just a Man's World

Here’s the final links for the year.  This year I will be taking a different approach.  In the past I have continued to write throughout Christmas and New Year but this year I am going to take a break from writing so this is the last article until January. I hope you all have a [...]

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Here’s this weekend’s links. Something interesting to kick us off this week.  Why do we find it so hard to learn a new language when we don’t recall how we became so good at learning our own language?  Why is it easier to learn a language when you are living in the country where it [...]

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Here’s this weekend’s links. Finding a way to cycle in some lighter training every once in a while is crucial when you’ve been training for a while.  As Jason Ferruggia says, this only really applies once you’ve been training for 3 years or more but then you need to remember that your body can’t take [...]

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Here’s this weekend’s links. I struggle a little with weight loss.  My weight naturally sits at a certain point and to drop it below that I have to take an almost obsessive approach to what I eat in order to drop to a different set-point.  Peter on Hyperlipid has done an interesting piece about getting [...]

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I’ve got two questions for everyone: What topics do you want me to write about next year?  Are there any burning research questions that you wish I’d look into but don’t seem to have done yet or that you think I should revisit? Do you have any n=1 experiments you would like me to try [...]

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Things are getting more and more crazy as I wind up (definitely not winding down) to the end of the year.  Several projects at work have deadlines before Christmas and there’s the added list of things to make sure are properly handed over before I leave.  As a result you might notice that some of [...]

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It has been one hell of a week of ups and downs.  On the up, our kitchen looks lovely and we have a new boiler (I’m actually typing this while sat in a nice hot bath – the first hot wash I’ve had at home since Tuesday morning’s shower).  On the down, this has really [...]

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I’ve been cycling home from work a few days each week and got a shock when the temperature suddenly started dropping this week.  On top of that they are threatening snow next week and in the same week we’re getting the boiler changed so we’ll find ourselves very cold.  Thank goodness work have some nice [...]

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I got a shock when I realised (or remembered) that my calendar at work has a “weeks remaining” feature and that I only have about 10 weeks left before the new life begins.  Despite that, there’s a lot to get done in the next 2.5 months and a lot of things I could get wrong [...]

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