Thoughts and not beliefs, with the occasional wild speculation
We all held our breath and journalists wrote articles about the barrister’s sharp mind and razor reasoning. Here was a fellow who could string a serious question together whilst getting a few laughs at Boris’s expense. So we all imagined Boris shaking in his boots. And Boris very well probably shook in his boots, as …
Continue reading “Kier Starmer: Not Simply Stooge But A Damp Squib”
Even after the recent Downing Street Scandals and bean-spilling by Dominic Cummings, Boris Johnson remains PM. After multiple allegations of cronyism, lying, dodgy loans and his then fiancé Cary Simons plucking someone from the crosshairs of an enquiry because she was best friends with him, plus a story about her dog taking up the PM’s …
Continue reading “Pinning Them Down: Accountability in Government and Corporations”
Most everyone who has a PC and uses the internet has clicked around simply for the hell of it. Whilst we might answer that we had nothing better to do, which is a reasonable answer, it is more difficult to answer why we let ourselves do it, especially when we have more useful things to …
Continue reading “Critical Theory and the Benefits of Clicking Around”
The field of Senescence research is alive, well and growing fast. In a nutshell it seeks to understand and counter age-related decline by tackling the processes of aging at the cellular level. Though the science is still someway off from stopping and eventually reversing age-related decline and the many diseases that accompany it, that day …
Continue reading “Major Hair Loss and General Decline: the Battle Against Aging”
Here I share the raw insight into how carrots make capitalism work and look bad all at the same time. In a nutshell, the whole edifice of the capitalist system rests on carrots, with all the embarrassing implications this brings with it. The kernel of insight in this observation – which I have to admit …
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An Italian institution that is unique among the people of Earth. Fare una brutta figura – (literally “to make an ugly figure”) is best translated by the English phrase “to cut a bad image” in public, or perhaps being “caught with your pants down“. Every Italian lives in mortal fear of this terrible social stigma, …
Only entropy comes easy – Anton Chekov In a quaint BBC Radio 4 short, comedian Robin Ince (co-presenter Infinite Monkey Cage) provides an entertaining insight into Murphy’s Law. After a review of Murphy’s Law (and a brief mention of Sod and his law), Ince tells of an equation that purportedly actually computes the probability of …
Continue reading “Murphy’s Law, Entropy, and the Second Law of Thermodynamics”
Save for the humanity of passers by and their smartphones, George Floyd’s murder would have been filed away as just one more routine, run-of-the-mill police incident that ended in a “tragic” death. The horror in the murder of George Floyd does not stop at the killing of an unarmed man who at most, possibly, may …
I am prepared to be shown where I am mistaken and made aware of where I may perhaps be prejudice even without intending, or simply ignorant of facts. I enthusiastically invite correction if it is to advance an honest argument in good faith. But please do so only if your reasons are genuine and not …
The short answer is they kill you. Read on to see what form this justified homicide might take. The re-emergence of birdsong and other long forgotten natural phenomena are Nature’s Final Wakeup This morning the sun shone in a crisp, clear sky and the birds sang in a near total coronasilence. As they twittered, I …
