Wading Through Treacle

Ed Witten is the foremost theoretical physicist alive today, although his introspective nature does not make great TV: consequently he'...

Steve Hsu is pessimistic about the terminal age of decadence in which we live: "The empires Glubb studied had a lifespan of about te...

On Friday November 24th our son, in a fit of DIY zealotry - decided to fix our leaking/clogged taps. This involved turning off both the wate...

Scott Alexander got pretty excited back in September about Andy Clark's " Surfing Uncertainty " (in this post ) - but that...

Not many posts recently as Alex is visiting. We were discussing programming languages, which divide between those focused on performance (C+...

From The Times today ( Gang war fear after Romanian sex trafficker Sorin Serbu is killed ): Sorin Serbu - Romanian gangster "Th...

Marx is newly fashionable again, but it's a daunting task to take on the four volumes of Capital . And in most fields you don't retr...

Clare buys faggots this morning at Wells Market Until you have tasted them, you have no idea how delicious this west-country delicacy ...

There's a curious sense of a world marking time . Politics in America, the UK and Europe sounds more than usually confected . Bogus ...

A Culture Orbital "Many years ago, a friend of mine who knows about these sorts of things handed me a book and said “Here, you hav...