http://vexen.vox.com/library/posts/page/1/ en Vox Sun, 14 Dec 2008 13:38:59 +0100 Copyright 2008 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://vexen.vox.com/library/post/hiding-in-london.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Vexen Crabtree) http://vexen.vox.com/library/post/hiding-in-london.html?_c=feed-rss http://vexen.vox.com/library/post/hiding-in-london.html?_c=feed-rss Sun, 14 Dec 2008 13:38:59 +0100 I've been staying at my friend's house in London, in Croydon... and although I've gone into London proper just to go to the British Library, I haven't told anyone I'm here at all! One reason is that I had to recover from Thursday night out in Bla... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://vexen.vox.com/library/post/hiding-in-london.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00ccff8c26c667310109d073fa2a000e?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> http://vexen.vox.com/library/post/the-anti-religious-forces-driving-secularisation.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Vexen Crabtree) http://vexen.vox.com/library/post/the-anti-religious-forces-driving-secularisation.html?_c=feed-rss http://vexen.vox.com/library/post/the-anti-religious-forces-driving-secularisation.html?_c=feed-rss Sun, 30 Nov 2008 15:26:12 +0100 I have moved page Anti-Religious Forces: Specific Factors Fuelling Secularisation page to my new www.Human Religions.info website and lightly edited it. <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://vexen.vox.com/library/post/the-anti-religious-forces-driving-secularisation.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00ccff8c26c66731010980bc493d000b?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> science religion religions sociology monotheism sociology of religion vexen vexen crabtree secularisation http://vexen.vox.com/library/post/the-uk-teenage-pregnancy-rate.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Vexen Crabtree) http://vexen.vox.com/library/post/the-uk-teenage-pregnancy-rate.html?_c=feed-rss http://vexen.vox.com/library/post/the-uk-teenage-pregnancy-rate.html?_c=feed-rss Tue, 23 Sep 2008 12:04:01 +0200 On my page "An Analysis of UK Trash Culture" by Vexen Crabtree (2004) I've added a brief comment on UK teenage pregnancy rates: The Institute for Public Policy Research reported in 2007 that British teenagers are the worst behaved in Europe. In... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://vexen.vox.com/library/post/the-uk-teenage-pregnancy-rate.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00ccff8c26c6673100fad6aeb7f80005?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> italy france culture german europe teenagers drunkeness alcoholism drugs alcohol pregnancy uk sexuality britain trash culture alcohol abuse http://vexen.vox.com/library/post/hellraiser-quotes-in-solitary-experiments-tracks.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Vexen Crabtree) http://vexen.vox.com/library/post/hellraiser-quotes-in-solitary-experiments-tracks.html?_c=feed-rss http://vexen.vox.com/library/post/hellraiser-quotes-in-solitary-experiments-tracks.html?_c=feed-rss Wed, 27 Aug 2008 14:44:36 +0200 I have noticed three tracks from the EBM/darkwave band Solitary Experiments to put on Hellraiser: Film samples used in music tracks I own (Vexen Crabtree) Here is a copy of the new text on that page: Track Pandora's Box on "Cause & Effect" (2004... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://vexen.vox.com/library/post/hellraiser-quotes-in-solitary-experiments-tracks.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00ccff8c26c6673100fa96956d690003?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> music dance horror films ebm darkwave hellraiser horror films solitary experiments vexen vexen crabtree http://vexen.vox.com/library/post/is-a-religion-better-for-being-well-behaved-or-for-being-truer.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Vexen Crabtree) http://vexen.vox.com/library/post/is-a-religion-better-for-being-well-behaved-or-for-being-truer.html?_c=feed-rss http://vexen.vox.com/library/post/is-a-religion-better-for-being-well-behaved-or-for-being-truer.html?_c=feed-rss Tue, 24 Jun 2008 22:39:40 +0200 Is a "better" religion one that improves people's behaviour (pragmatists would say so!), or is a better religion one that is close to the truth (idealists, unite!)? Religions that are appealing probably fit in the former category, whilst potentia... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://vexen.vox.com/library/post/is-a-religion-better-for-being-well-behaved-or-for-being-truer.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00ccff8c26c6673100fa96820af50003?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> http://vexen.vox.com/library/post/its-alive.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Vexen Crabtree) http://vexen.vox.com/library/post/its-alive.html?_c=feed-rss http://vexen.vox.com/library/post/its-alive.html?_c=feed-rss Tue, 24 Jun 2008 22:19:56 +0200 Most journals and blog sites are blocked by the very heavy firewall that exists in this country... but I just found that Vox works! 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A member of a large and powerful tribe whose influence in human affairs has always been dominant. 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Measures of aggressive behaviour, fantasy, attitude, etc. are taken before, during and ... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://vexen.vox.com/library/post/tv-violence-r-gross.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00ccff8c26c6673100cdf7e7a4d1094f?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> violence psychology sociology aggression mass media trash culture tv violence