We all look through conceptual windows, mostly square…

 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...

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Most problems in the world go back to Mrs Thatcher (that’s a joke)…

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...

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How strange that the foundations of reason should be so unreasonable

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...

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The last thing fervent advocates of free trade want is free trade.

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...

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The heart of the universe cries out in love.

 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)...

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Why can’t they see futures that are obvious?

 It’s amazing how professionals in different fields seem unable to foresee futures that are obvious.    You would have thought it was obvious that as soon as there was an economic downturn all those people who had been lent subprime...

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How we could have used that $12 trillion

“Too large a proportion of recent ‘mathematical’ economics are merely concoctions, as imprecise as the initial assumptions they rest on, which allow the author to lose sight of the complexities and interdependencies of the real world in a maze...

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Brief Review of Loveliest of Men: Darwin the poet who died.

Darwin made one of the greatest discoveries ever.  But onto his discovery  he projected  a myth  of  evolution through war, extermination, disease and death drawn from Victorian capitalism.   He presents Natural Selection to us in terms of a causally...

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My life is slipping away…

My life is slipping awayLike an ever flowing riverYet only rarely do I sayLook! there's the river 

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Nature so beautiful and yet so cruel

‘In the afternoon lots of pretty little myrtle warblers  were playing and diving for insects in the low pine branches over my head, so close I could almost touch them.  I was awed at their loveliness, their quick flight,...

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