matthewcobb.bsky.social
Professor Emeritus (Manchester), writes on history of science & French Resistance. Finishing a biography of Francis Crick, out in October 2025.
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Hello!
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Well it’s more complicated - and interesting - than you might think!
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Watching the new Netflix series with de Niro is perhaps not a good idea either…
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I had a CT lung scan a couple of weeks ago because my father had lung cancer and I have been a lifetime smoker -
It came back all clear.
My heart too.
Funny, you don't know you've been worrying, until you hear back.
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The real issue is that you are working for Google, for free, every time you click. medium.com/@yennhi95zz/...
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+1, from my local bookshop!
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Quite the lineup!
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“He went by the south and burned his mouth” is what I learned.
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The photo shows Herb Boyer (left) and Paul Berg; the young man in the background is Ray Dixon, who is still an active researcher in plant genetics.
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Not really a retrospective, though there will be a brief historical section. Outline here: www.spiritofasilomar.org
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Passed you as you walked past the Horse and Jockey. “That’s Jen Williams,” I said to Tina.
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Oh no, much before that. The thing is ancient, the word in the 60s I think.
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This is one of those situations in which Freud pointed out there’s no such thing as a joke. It represents what to him is a profound desire & truth. Presenting it as a joke creates plausible deniability, because normal people will say “How ridiculous! He must be joking. Let’s not take it seriously.”
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Cf. Sartre in 1946.
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Probably not, as “verlan” is French for “back slang”, inverting bits of words, v common in French (femme -> meuf etc).
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Johnson, too, dreamed of being “world-king”.