BlindFish Ideas

Dear Science, Now I know that I don't give you as much attention as I used to, especially compared to when I was a teenager. But I still see you as my friend. You make me smile you make me laugh and you keep amazing me! I hope our friendship will continue for many years and as your friend can I ask a favour.  Please start work on... Genetically engineered pets  Let philosophers work out the ethics, I want some cool new pets in my home. For starters a dog sized elephant. A perfect intelligent pet who couldn't jump on the furniture (elephants cant jump, but science you already know this, in fact you taught me that). Also micro dolphins/whales for my home aquarium and allergy free dogs/cats. I would start with the dogs and cats, probably has the least ethical concerns. But those are just my 3 ideas I'm sure you will come up with something else to amaze me.  HUD eye implants I grew up with FPS games and it taught me that you can make...

I love internet video but sometimes I find it fiddly to watch the programs I want to watch. So i decided to try and use some online tools to create a personalised video channel of all the programs I wanted to watch.  So I made g-geek.tumblr.com . In this post I explain why and how I made this automatic updating website of lots of free geeky programs.  Will Wheaton's board game show Table Top is one of my shows  I think web shows are a significant shift in the media landscape. The internet as the great  leveler  of the playing field allows anyone to produce material with no budget. With no production cost the focus is on the material. I have a number of geeky interests and others create some great web shows about it. The delivery channel for all my chosen shows is YouTube (but other services like Vimeo can do it). Problem is I kinda hate the youtube interface. For a number of reasons.  It isn't easy to subscribe to indivi...

Thoughts on how SRE workers may have to respond to it with young people.  (I know I have posted a couple of Sex related post recently I will be posting other stuff soon.) I have just finished reading 50 shades of grey. As a youth worker and sex and relationship educator I felt it was important to have an informed opinion before September when teenagers/young people might ask me questions in lessons and youth clubs. I'm a little behind the trend but spending 12 weeks travelling did take me out of touch. I have always thought it is crucial to read a book itself before commenting on it. So even though it is not my typical book I thought it was important to read it.  To be clear this book was not written for young people, it is not meant to be read by young people and I don't believe E. L. James would be happy for young people to read it. But in my experience young people love to consume (watch, read, listen) media that adults do not want them to read. Eit...

Pattaya - the Thai city of sin? Both Thailand and Great Britain share a number of the same issues in Sexual Health but these issue express themselves in different ways. I want to learn from the situation in Thailand, especially how people are responding, to improve my work in the UK. I have just returned from a 12 week trip around South East Asia as part of this trip I visited a number of projects in Cambodia, see previous posts and I spent a month in Thailand. In Thailand I visited three projects all tackling different sexual health issues. "The House of Grace" A HIV orphanage, "The Tamar Centre" helping people who wish to leave the commercial sex trade and "ACET Singburi" a schools based prevention programme and HIV+ home visit team. Traveling around South East Asia I became aware of a number of cultural differences that permeate society and impact sexual health in complex ways. I cannot claim to understand the social sexual health situation ...

Today I went to a place called Tiger Kingdom in Chiang Mai. This is a tiger breeding centre that runs on the money generated by tourist paying to spend time in tiger cages with semi-tame tigers. Now they may look like over sized cats but they are not domestic animals. They have been around humans their whole life and are very relaxed with them but they are not completely safe and must be supervised. They would not bite someone for food but might nip them in playing. Apart from the smallest 2 month old tigers you will see us usually sitting behind the tigers and avoiding the head. This is both for our safety and because the care staff don't want the tigers to catch anything from us by their mouth getting too close to us. Visitors can only interact with adolescent tigers under 2 years old. After that they can be less playful and more grumpy. So the tigers retire across the country with other breeding centre and reserves. All the tigers we saw looked very h...

We have been to the Angkor temple complex which houses around a 1000s temples (some tiny so small you wouldn't notice them, others are huge religious monuments still in use today). For our stay in Siem reap we will be visiting the temple park spread over miles of countryside a number of times and we will be sharing some of the many photos we have taken at the more impressive temple sites. By the way according to this Wikipedia list the Angkor temples are the 4th "8th Wonder of the World" we have visited so far on our trip, the others being , the Great Wall of China, the Terracotta Army and the 3 Gorges Dam. I think you could create a very extensive and excellent round the world tour visiting all the places that try to claim they are the 8th Wonder of the world.  On the way to and from the temple we meet bands playing local music. Michelle bought a CD All of the band is made up from land mine victims. Due to its violent past their are hundreds of fresh victims eve...