{"id":347,"date":"2010-04-18T20:46:42","date_gmt":"2010-04-18T20:46:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/2010\/04\/18\/on_memories\/"},"modified":"2010-04-18T20:46:42","modified_gmt":"2010-04-18T20:46:42","slug":"on_memories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/2010\/04\/18\/on_memories\/","title":{"rendered":"On Memories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scurry has written about <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/scurry\/2010\/04\/17\/homeopathy-and-the-structure-of-memory\">memories<\/a>. The skies over London have been similarly homeopathic this weekend&#8211;clear blue skies (like water), with no aeroplanes (like homeopathic preparations).<\/p>\n<p><em>The Memory of Air Flight.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\nI went up Stave Hill yesterday and shot the video you see above. Usually the skies of London are criss-crossed with contrails: City Airport is to the east, just beyond Canary Wharf and Heathrow is southwest of us. Both very busy airports. But yesterday there was nothing. If I said that if you looked carefully you could see where the aeroplanes <em>used<\/em> to fly, you&#8217;d laugh at me, and rightly so. No memory of flight, there.<\/p>\n<p>\nBut the muppets are still at it. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.homeopathswithoutborders-na.org\/\">Homeopaths without borders<\/a>? Oh please. If this isn&#8217;t a joke, it&#8217;s immoral and obscene. Playing on the good name of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msf.org.uk\/\">M\u00e9decins Sans Fronti\u00e8res<\/a> to go and wave dehydrated water (yes, I know) at people who really need proper, <em>medical<\/em> help. Just in case you wondered, Muppets without borders is &#8220;Not associated with Doctors Without Borders&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>\nOh, that&#8217;s all right then. Excuse me, I think I need to go and have a decidedly non-homeopathic vodka.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scurry has written about memories. The skies over London have been similarly homeopathic this weekend&#8211;clear blue skies (like water), with no aeroplanes (like homeopathic preparations). The Memory of Air Flight. I went up Stave Hill yesterday and shot the video &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/2010\/04\/18\/on_memories\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,37,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-homeopathy","category-rants","category-science-less-sunday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}