I like working in a university: serendipity often strikes, as for example it did yesterday. A group gathered for a vacation seminar in the lecture theatre next door. Posters appeared about directing people to something called Locating technoscience. We joked about it, wondering why they would need paper posters to find such a conference.
A quick web search determined that it was anESRC seminar on Spaces of Secrecy and Transparency, one of the Locating Technoscience series. Not only this but one of the papers was Discovering Spin: The Transparency of the Production of the British Dossier on Iraq's WMD. I wish I had heard it.
Apropos, I see that the Royal Navy base their claim that their RIB was not in Iranian waters on the evidence of a Garmin device. I would be wary; my Garmin is very good and useful, but runners discussion boards are rich with comments on their inaccuracy.
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