Vampirism: the bloodborne disease

This is the fourth part in a four part series looking at the extraordinary popularity of the vampire genre, Dracula being the subject of more films than any other fictional character. The four parts are:

Posted under Cliche watch, Unanswerable questions

This post was written by @Drivelry on March 16, 2013

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Vampires selling unsafe sex?

This is the third part in a  four part series looking at the extraordinary popularity of the vampire  genre, Dracula being the subject of more films than any other fictional character.  The four parts are:

Posted under Unanswerable questions

This post was written by @Drivelry on January 28, 2013

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One climate change model that is 100% certain

After listening to a friend who works in environmental policy and communications it seems clear there is at least one climate change model which is completely proven.

However that’s not to say that other elements of the climate change picture aren’t probable.

For example it could well be the case that:-Some effects of climate change are already certain

Posted under Unanswerable questions

This post was written by @Drivelry on August 8, 2012

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Psssst….can I buy your vote? How much do you want for it?

How much is your vote worth?Would it be better if our voters were motivated and not compelled? Photo on Flickr by Wendy Piersall licensed under Creative Commons

In Libya or Syria the right to vote may be worth a life. However there’s little in the way of basic freedoms and a low standard of living. There is everything to play for in comparison to a Western democracy where you have many established rights and the standard of living is higher still.

Posted under Hate pets, Unanswerable questions, Wait for release 2.0

This post was written by @Drivelry on April 15, 2012

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Vampire origins: the price of immortality

This is the second part in a four part series looking at the extraordinary popularity of the vampire genre, Dracula being the subject of more films than any other fictional character. The four parts are:

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This post was written by @Drivelry on January 15, 2011

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Agora – “Anti-Christian worldview full of propaganda and blatant historical falsehoods”?

Review of Agora the film - DVD on Amazon  

By any conventional measure Agora the film sucks.  There’s no onscreen sex, the good guys variously die and are disillusioned at the end, it’s centred on an unknown philosopher played by Rachel Weisz, and the underlying romance is a story of unrequited love.  

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This post was written by @Drivelry on January 8, 2011

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Curation nation or where is my external brain?

Photo by gruntzooki from Flickr licensed under Creative Commons

What’s all the buzz about curation?

Over the last couple of years there has increasing interest in the concept of curation, the idea that as the amount of content on the web expands exponentially, it may not be the availability of the content itself, but how it is organised and prioritized for you that matters (check out Google Trends on the growing use of the term ”curation”).

Posted under Cliche watch, Kewl, Reviews

This post was written by @Drivelry on November 27, 2010

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