Wading Through Treacle

Amazon link Fifty eight reviews already at Amazon at time of writing . This, the first of another door-stopping trilogy, is a mid-fut...

Amazon link I mentioned Peter Woit's generally favourable review of this book in a previous post . " Beyond Weird ", de...

Amazon link In contemporary thought capitalism, at least in embryo, has always been with us. People have always traded, merchants have ...

From the BBC website : "A senior scientist has given what has been described as a "highly offensive" presentation about...

Nile cruise ship security in action As I mentioned in my previous post , we've just come back from a two week Nile cruise in Egypt....

Clare ignores the Nile (from our cabin) in favour of The Times Clare and myself were recently in Egypt; specifically we signed up with ...

Amazon link Grant Hutchison wrote this insightful review on Amazon. "To some extent this is a companion volume to Egan's...

The Atacama desert in Chile is high, dry and cold. It has been used by NASA as a Mars simulator . No-one lives there. Yet people say...

Amazon link A couple of years ago I wrote some posts reviewing Francis Fukuyama's " The Origins of Political Order ". Fr...

Amazon link I'm into extreme diminishing returns on books about the interpretation of quantum theory . And here is another, only w...