Wading Through Treacle

My sometime correspondent Roy Simpson asked me to comment on the following text from a European research roadmap project. 'What does it ...

A message has been received in coded neutrino pulses from the stars. A Manhattan-style project has been set up in the strictest secrecy to t...

Now back in Dubai, but in an apartment in The Greens, about 10 minutes walk from the office. In my two weeks back in the UK, I was able to i...

Alan Bond and Mark Hempsell have produced a thorough, scholarly book here which is centred around analysis of the cuneiform tablet K8538 (th...

Niall and Clarissa blagged their way to the top of the Burj Dubai , where they were rewarded with a great view. Peeking out at the 600 metre...

Just finished Steven Pinker's mammoth " The Stuff of Thought " which was a Christmas present. At 512 pages, I don't have t...

This is a truly amazing story from Physorg.com here . A cuneiform clay tablet that has puzzled scholars for over 150 years has been translat...

I brought a new purchase with me to Dubai: Paul Dirac, the man and his work . I took it into the office to show to a colleague who had done ...

Professor Zee, in his book " Quantum Field Theory in a Nutshell ", suggested that Quantum Field Theory is humanity's greatest ...

Today I have some consultant stories. Once upon a time there was a small company in the mid-west which ran into trouble with a chip it was d...