Journeyman Philosopher

Earlier this week (last Tuesday, in fact) I was invited to take a U3A class as a 'guest speaker', with the title of this post as th...

The June 2010 edition of Scientific American had an article called Is Time an Illusion? The article was written by Craig Callendar, who is...

Last week’s New Scientist (12 June 2010) had a very interesting article on dreams, in particular ‘lucid dreaming’, by Jessica Hamzelou. She...

I heard an interview with William Dalrymple last week (19 May 2010, Sydney time) who is currently attending the Sydney Writers’ Festival. T...

I know: you don’t believe me; but you haven’t read Henk Tennekes’s book, The Simple Science of Flight; From Insects to Jumbo Jets . This is ...

In some respects this post is a continuation of the last one. The following week’s issue of New Scientist (3 April 2010) had a cover story ...