Mar 21 2009
Endarkenment followed by overpriced beer
I’m heading out this morning to do frightfully grown-up things like look for curtains. So this is just a quick post.
Last night we went to a talk by David Colquhoun in the bowels of Appleton Tower. There’s a building that’s changed! Anyway, Prof Colquhoun was talking about pseudoscience in British universities, and his ceaseless campaign of blogging and letter-writing to get them to stop. There are a remarkable number of universities out there that will give you a Bachelor of Science degree in homeopathy or crystal healing.
After that we went to 56 North, the new name for the Human Be In, still as horrendously overpriced as it ever was. Well done to Ella for post-dissertation hangover. :-) We headed home early in order to conserve our middle-aged sensibilities for the curtain-shopping ahead of us.
2 Responses to “Endarkenment followed by overpriced beer”
so how has Appleton Tower changed?? We spent a tedious First year in there, er 37 years ago!
The ground floor, previously just a large atrium, now has a cafe with seating, and the one lecture theatre we went in had soft chairs with high backs, like a cinema, and individual desks for each person. It was still as ugly on the outside..