Wading Through Treacle

The Yale scientists took possession of 32 pig heads from the abattoir, four hours dead. They then infused the brains with chemicals and sy...

  Down to Lytes Cary Manor (National Trust), about half an hour’s drive from home. A walk through the grounds, damp and gooey clay, the od...

Clare said, "I worry about you posting stuff too quickly. It makes sense to you, but you only see the meaning you intend. You don't...

 Some will think so today. This beautiful, poignant song by Lou Reed finishes with a lyric to ponder: " You're going to reap just...

Some of those alive today will never truly pass... I live in the moment. I don’t experience yesterday’s me, or the me of ten seconds ago. Th...

From Amazon From Marginal Revolution today (a comment ). Have you ever heard of Schumpeter saying he was as impatient with those who could ...

  Humans evolved as tribal hunters, fiercely loyal within the extended kin group - and sharply hostile to outsiders. This is the natural con...

  She's standing there in the almost-deserted car park, waiting for me. A chill wind is blowing down from the east, down from the snows...

Maxwell's equations are a kind of pons asinorum of physics. An essential bridge to be crossed in electromagnetism - yet as a system of ...

  There Are Better Ways of Helping the World’s Poor in the Global South Than Slavery Reparations – An Economic Analysis The idea of slavery ...