Y’all have been following the there is probably no god campaign on buses in London? You can make your own now.

Roger Ebert has written a powerful, meandering essay about shame. He inspired me to add my own. Continue reading →

The political blogs for the last few weeks have been talking about something called Liberaltarianism. It’s based around the idea that libertarians have more in common with a certain kind of liberal than they do with mainstream conservatives – or … Continue reading →

Kalid at Better Explained likes to find intuitive ways to explain difficult mathematical concepts like, Why does 00 = 1 ? I like Kalid.

Steve Freemand observes (We are not craftspeople yet) the poor opinion that the general public has of software development as a profession. Recently the (London) Times put the dire state of UK government IT projects on their front page. One … Continue reading →

“Thus, from the war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted object which we are capable of conceiving, namely, the production of the higher animals, directly follows. There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several … Continue reading →

The Sombrero Galaxy – 28 million light years from Earth – has 800 billion suns and is 50,000 light years across. and it’s very pretty.

HINT: You have to do it yourself OK, so you want an eponymous idea. Presumably you are currently below the Arbesman Limit, so that won’t be a factor. First, take your surname and append one of the following suggested terms … Continue reading →

I am impressed that the  BBC wrote a fairly technical article about the sequencing of a Neanderthal  genome. But I wish I could read the original study to see if it merits the focus on these two points: “they say … Continue reading →

Reinventing the tax system Continue reading →