Geiser Plume
Releasing an over-heated head of steam
Thursday, 2 March 2017
Belief and Certainty
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“Belief is the state of mind in which a person thinks something to be the case, with or without there being empirical evidence to prove th...
Wednesday, 1 March 2017
Starwoman
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Vera Rubin died on the night of Christmas Day, 2016. Her lights went out at the ripe old age of 88 and she never won a Nobel Prize. Har...
Monday, 27 February 2017
Democracy, Truck Rallies and Spectator Readers
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NOTE: What follows is a caricature. A lot of great articles have been published in The Spectator. Benjamin Franklin certainly thought so. ...
Tuesday, 27 September 2016
Vinegar, a truly magical cure
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According to the BBC, there is some flimsy (and none too scientific) evidence on the health benefits of apple cider vinegar that include a r...
Sunday, 25 September 2016
Clueless in Bulgaria
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It is all too easy, for the average Brit, to be clueless in Bulgaria. The Bulgarian language is, initially at least, impenetrable. What Gr...
WTF is Philosophy?
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[NOTE: what follows is entirely tongue-in-cheek and there are no prizes for spotting the semantic leaps in the reasoning. That is not to say...
Tuesday, 20 September 2016
The Proof that God (with a capital G) does not Exist
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Brief This post is slightly tongue in cheek, there is obviously no way anyone can prove or disprove the existence of God. But the ideas, ...
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