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,...
Jan
27
2016
Freedom is not the capacity to choose to have a coffee rather than a tea. There can be little doubt that such choices are dictated by determinist physical processes, and only feel free because they are too complex for...
Jan
25
2016
To say that Christianity is true and Islam is not, or vice versa, is like saying that physics is true and chemistry is not. You might say that physics underlies chemistry and in a sense has a more profound...
Jan
20
2016
It was in the great Brazilian rainforests that Darwin felt most keenly the sense of the sublime, in ‘the great, wild, untidy, luxuriant hothouse’ of the Amazon. In Brazil even Humboldt’s ‘glorious descriptions’ did not do justice to the...
Jan
18
2016
From Virgil. The Sybil warns Aeneas to think carefully before he journeys to the underworld – The way downward is easy from AvernusBlack Dis’s door stands open night and dayBu to retrace your steps to the air of heavenThere is...
Jan
17
2016
A problem with nuclear power I hadn’t thought of until I read Jeremy Rifkind’s Book The Zero Marginal Cost Society. 43% of France’s fresh water goes on cooling nuclear reactors and when it is returned to the earth it...