Robert Cottrell

Founding Editor of @TheBrowser

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This photograph has acquired a new salience, no?

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@PhysInHistory "The discovery that nucleic acids are the substances that embody genetical information is the most important discovery in modern science. I shall not argue the point because nothing turns on whether you agree with me or not" — Peter Medawar

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@CaryLiljohn06 Thanks for your kind post. I wish I'd waited another day before publishing, but an accident of timing is a very small price to pay for a world without Prigozhin. Here's an update I posted to the website yesterday:

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Not at all how I imagined Yevgeny Prigozhin's business partner [https://t.co/NKfgFVomcD]

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@NotoriousTIB Re magic: Possibly useful bibliography at the end of this paper https://t.co/EBWpdpWbKf

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@adwooldridge Not if you were prepared to stand by your decision, and argue the case, and apply the principles generally. But I doubt that is the case here.

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@ByrneHobart Thanks, all good. I want somewhere to practice degrowth — doing small things slowly; most of the time just reading — without feeling that I am endangering humanity by my example. I greatly admire your writing on financial markets, I just don't want to live there.

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@annemcelvoy Isn't it easier to work while they stay in bed?

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@mrianleslie Did nobody speak out in favour paying tax in the ordinary sort of way? It's generally clear what tax (25-40%) the government intends one to pay; yet even the pro-tax rich (Buffett, Gates) see tax avoidance as reasonable, and tax avoidance by those in government hardly helps.

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@mrianleslie @adwooldridge Isn't it rather than we are choosing to have the infrastructure of a poor country, despite having the income of a rich country?

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@ByrneHobart And do you find Brazil an example which argues in favour of the "modern" approach?

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@NotoriousTIB @HenryEOliver https://t.co/6Deo5bKT9o

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@phl43 It seems to me that some people have a gift for languages, and, if so, then why not for maths? But if it's a matter of pedagogy, and (almost) everybody agree on the primacy of maths, why haven't we done a better job teaching?

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@ojblanchard1 One can be proud of one's country without being proud of one's country's government or the actions of one's country's government. Please be proud of France, it is full of wonderful things and people.

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@benedictevans Excellent essay. Maybe you have a new law in there: "Work expands to fill technology available"

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@BeijingPalmer yah, sorry, principles. though the principal also not a non-issue

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@BeijingPalmer But even so, and if we don't argue the merits of Twitter from first principals, what's the downside to being able to buy occasional paywalled articles without taking out a subscription, if pubishers play along?

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@benedictevans Petrol car > electric car
Yo Sushi > Itsu
Zagat > Trip Advisor
Wintel PC > Mac
CDs/DVDs > Streaming
Credit cards > debit cards
MySpace > Facebook
Marriage > Civil partnership

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@brettmartin just to say how much I enjoyed your burger piece; below is my recommendation in yesterday's @thebrowser newsletter