Wading Through Treacle

Tuesday I decided to cancel my subscription to "New Scientist". IMHO it's been getting steadily more populist, vacuous and con...

Dr. Hugh Loebner set up this competition in 1991 as an application of the Turing test for artificial intelligence. Each year a number of pro...

1. The key thing about science is that you could be wrong. I know Popper made this a cardinal principle, but it's also psychologically d...

This is a book review posted at Amazon.com here . Paul Klemperer was the principal auction theorist advising the UK Government on the design...

The Praetorian Guard had been set up by the first emperor, Augustus, as an instrument of his personal power. Comprising ten cohorts of 1,000...

Still working through final editing on the book. I estimate I will be around 9,000 words short, so I have decided to add a new chapter, ...

"Iraqi Prime Minister Ibrahim Jaafari has rejected growing pressure to resign, saying Iraqis must be allowed to choose their leader dem...

First things first. The book is basically finished, but around 10-15,000 words short. Not an insurmountable task. As of today, I have revise...

Here's a good answer to Creationists: "dogs!" Why? They clearly evolved from a common ancestor, we did it ourselves through ...

According to American vets from Iraq, interviewed on BBC's Newsnight last night, US troops in the Sunni North were regularly driving aro...