Journeyman Philosopher

This is one of my autodidactic posts – I’m not a physicist so this is a layperson’s attempt to explain one of the seminal equations in physi...

Over the last month I’ve acquired 3 books that are not entirely unrelated. Not surprisingly, they all deal with topics I’ve discussed befor...

An unusual oxymoron, I know, but, like anything delivered tongue-in-cheek, it contains an element of serious conjecture. Many years ago (qua...

In the 2 April 2011 edition of New Scientist , the editorial was titled Rights for robots; We will know when it’s time to recognise artific...

This arose from an article in last week’s New Scientist titled Thou shalt believe – or not by Jonathan Lanman (26 March 2011, pp.38-9). La...

I’ve just completed reading Aayan Hirsi Ali’s autobiography, Infidel . It’s the latest book in my book club (refer my blog roll) following o...