Wading Through Treacle

Liberals in the American sense, that is; in the UK we tend to use the term ' Hampstead Socialist '. Here are some English liberals: ...

Def . Cybercity ( n) . A town or city with high levels of automation and artificial intelligence designed to run and maintain itself autono...

From Mike Judge’s film " Idiocracy " (2006):  “Most science fiction of the day predicted a future that was more civilized and mo...

Prof. Matt Strassler writes : (my emphasis ) I use LinkedIn sparingly, though I have found it beneficial on occasion. But one of its featu...

Lots of people haven't taken IQ tests, or maybe they did but their company declined to share the results. But calm yourselves: there is ...

This post is a simple back of the envelope calculation based on Davide Piffer's paper as discussed in my earlier post . First a quick...

Refer to text below to understand this A somewhat overlooked paper: " Factor Analysis of Population Allele Frequencies as a Simple,...

We saw our first woodpecker this morning, on the sunflower hearts ... and then, A hungry Mr Squirrel eventually climbed down ont...

War Dogs by Greg Bear. First of a new trilogy. Tired rip-off of Starship Troopers lacking ideas, authorial engagement and sadly, even much...

1. Best review of Iain M. Banks's Culture sequence Matt Hilliard, a smart and insightful reviewer at Strange Horizons wrote this ...