Tuesday, December 8, 2009

Purpose

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Can we say "everything" has a purpose, or a goal? This notion raises shouts of high heresy amongst the scientific party-liners. B...
Friday, June 26, 2009

RIPs

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THE DAY AFTER Michael Jackson's death, I wrote on my Facebook page: When Michael Jackson was born I was thirty years old. I barely not...
Monday, June 22, 2009

Rights to Land

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Here's a comment on land-owner's rights which takes in, not only current argumetns, but also negates quarrels over land titles which...
Tuesday, May 26, 2009

Global Warming: James Lovelock's unorthodox approach

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Still in mid-reading of Lovelock's latest: The vanishing face of Gaia . Lovelock treats the biosphere as a complex system, so intricate ...

Daniel Hannen, the Telegraph and direct democracy

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Looks to me like a recipe for complete disaster. Hannen has now lost my confidence after having won it for his brilliant excoriation of shab...
Monday, May 25, 2009

Democracy and duckhouses

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This email I received from a relative in UK notes some of the pettier forms of corruption among politicians: We are having quite a lot of ...
Friday, May 22, 2009

Arithmetical Uproar

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How can I praise the outrage Gödel brought? Mathematics torn to baseless shreds; Scholars tumbled from their tenured beds. Prof...
Sunday, May 10, 2009

Art and the Unexpected

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March 13th, 2009 Researchers find that the unexpected is a key to human learning Phys.Org reports "The human brain's sensitiv...
Tuesday, May 5, 2009

Thinking about thinking

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A cloud of life-images infuse me. All the world is The Thinker. Pantheisms in various shapes drift through my mind; they resemble one an...
Monday, May 4, 2009

Gunman shoots 13 dead at US immigrant center

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Read the headline:  Gunman shoots 13 dead at US immigrant counselling centre Government response: “We’ve got to figure out a way to deal wit...