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)...
Jan
31
2016
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...
Jan
30
2016
“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...
Jan
29
2016
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...
Jan
29
2016
My life is slipping awayLike an ever flowing riverYet only rarely do I sayLook! there's the river
Jan
28
2016
‘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,...