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• Greg. Tingey commented on Write the story!
  Off-topic But relevant to past posts' and perhaps Charlies interests/predictions... Today on the BBC Radio 4 "Today" programme, at about 07.16hrs (go to BBCR4 website, select "i=player" etc for replay) ... TWO successive items. First on "bubbles" and how to predict them, and how it appears useless, at the moment at least (no mention of being too close to the trees to see the wood, I notice) and, immediately after that... The rise and rise of small-size, high-priced luxury goods manufacturers, out of all proportion. Fascinating stuff....
• Moderator Alan commented on Write the story!
  I'm trying to remember which rather nasty little SF story was inspired by the quote of Nathan Hale before being hanged for treason: “I only regret that I have but one life to give for my country.” In the story, there's no such limitation....
• Moderator Alan commented on Write the story!
  don't have tuna to hand of a suitable quality for sushi At least you can get away with slightly lower quality fish when it's with sushi. It's when it's pure sashimi, no sushi at all, that you need the best. And there's nowt wrong or even unusual with salmon sashimi - it's a good fish for it. It's even currently first in the list on the relevant Wikipedia page....
• Brett Dunbar commented on Write the story!
  Some support for the 1980s children's TV hypothesis about Kevin "Gerbil" Carroll's nickname is provided by one of his pallbearers being Francis "Fraggle" Green; who was also the first on the scene after Gerbil's murder....
• brucecohenpdx commented on Glasgow
  Well, my source for information about schizophrenia is my son, who is a clinical research psychologist specializing on research in and teaching about the diagnosis and treatment of schizophrenia. Among other research he runs a clinic where he both treats and studies his patients. I asked him about the virus theory a few months ago, and he said that it's an interesting idea, but that there's not really a lot of data to support it. There's certainly no direct link to any given virus, nor any strong indirect statistical data about correlation (and certainly not causation) between viral infection and...