Feb
18
2016
The universe began 13.7 blllion years ago in an explosion of hot gas. By 380,000 years later it had cooled sufficiently for nuclei and electrons to start combining into atoms. It seems nonsense to say they just happened to...
Feb
16
2016
Reading George Soros’s The Crisis of Global Capitalism with great profit. Reflexivity and the individual encumbered by fallibility are marvellous concepts. Indeed, I think I might add it to my personal list of great books: Adam Smith’s Theory of...
Feb
14
2016
The new discoveries science makes are sometimes so astonishing, so overturning of everything that had previously been in the mind, they cast all previous discoveries in so different a light it is almost as if those discoveries had never...
Feb
13
2016
Hey the Spanish Armada is in the Channel !!We are reviewing the situation every five yearsHey Hitler is in France !!There are more important issues. the economy for exampleHey we've only twenty years to halt climate change !!Let me...
Feb
13
2016
We all look through small conceptual windows, mostly square, and only see what these limiting mental frameworks can show us. For example, I was educated in the humanities and much exposed to the way Plato and Aristotle think during...
Feb
08
2016
Most problems in the world go back to Mrs Thatcher (that’s a joke) but just a few to Shirley Williams. I’ve nothing against comprehensive schools per se. There is much to be said for large institutions that can command...
Feb
07
2016
The discovery of nonlocality tells us that two subatomic particles that are entangled (i.e. have been generated in such a way that they cannot be described independently of each other) can communicate instantaneously with each other even if, physicists...
Feb
05
2016
The last thing fervent advocates of free trade usually want is free trade free from government interference - at least not the kind of government interference that benefits them. This is true from the British sending round soldiers to...
Feb
02
2016
To think that wild geese are calling as they pass overhead in order merely to regulate their flight formation (which they are) and to maintain that birds sing simply to warn other birds off their territories (which they do)...