The truth behind global warming?
Former British Chancellor and Secretary of State for Energy, Nigel Lawson, has written a book on Global Warming titled An Appeal To Reason, subtitled a cool look at global warming. In it he suggests that the current reaction to global warming is not a particularly rational one given the facts.
The thing that first caught my [...]
Light hearted Xmas Fun
It being almost Christmas, and tomorrow being the last day that we need to pretend to be working, I thought I would tackle a more light hearted subject: The nature of consciousness.
The fun of philosophy is not in the answer it is in the question. When reading any text on the subject it is more [...]
Be gone!!
Lorelle is asking everyone what they want gone from the web. This could be quite difficult, but beside the obvious, spammers, IE6, table based layouts, Javascript widgets etc, there is one thing that I want to die. I want SEO gone.
There is a lot of nonsense talked about SEO; either it is evil, or simple, [...]
Make Me A Muslim
Today I watched the second in a three part series called Make Me A Muslim. The idea behind the show is to introduce normal members of the British public to Islam and see how they take to some of the practices, or in many of the cases, non-practices.
The show is prefaced with a look at [...]
Been to a museum recently?
Have you been to a museum recently? I have.
I can only remember visiting one museum in the last, possibly 15 years. I have been to the odd art gallery now and then, the Tate Modern most recently, but not a proper natural history museum with bones, and spears, and pots and dinosaurs and things.
That’s why [...]
Politics is dead to me
Lorelle has set the challenge:Write a political post. This is a topic I tend to avoid as it has a tendency to bring out the combative side in people. When tensions run high I usually take the step back approach. But a challenge is a challenge.
The title says a lot. I quite like politics, it [...]