Wading Through Treacle

Or, the day we nearly occupied the Chilean Embassy In 1973 General Pinochet launched a military coup which overthrew the democratically-elec...

We can all admire the Christian church, like other religions, when it's doing its ethical thing: encapsulating all that's best in so...

The evolutionary psychologist (amongst other things) Nikolas Lloyd (NL) - who has an interesting site here - wrote to me (NS) in response to...

Down to Salisbury yesterday evening to see this beautiful film. The plot is excellently summarised in the Wikipedia entry here . Individuall...

I was researching something on Google, and bemoaning the limitations of keyword search. 'If only Google understood my query', I thou...

This is a picture of the sun as assembled from neutrinos detected in a 50,000 ton water tank located one kilometre underground in Japan. To...

Like the previous 'literary' post, this is also a small literary piece, inspired by a recent business flight where security was even...

“With the arrival of my last two operatives, I can report that the intelligence squad is now up to full strength. Staff have been individual...

You can buy computer simulations of football. Often you are the football manager and choose the teams. You can observe the pitch, the player...

We asked Kitty what he thought of the previous discussion about the nature of 'two' . "zzzzz" Philosophy of Mathema...