Risk

Nov 136 min read

End of an Epoch!

Let’s talk about the end of the world, shall we? Or maybe not. Fortunately, some stories of impending doom are overestimated, and some...

Oct 166 min read

Welcome to the Rage Machine!

One of my all-time favourite songs is Welcome to the Machine , by Pink Floyd. While the song appeared on the 1975 album Wish You Were...

Oct 95 min read

Rasputin

It’s been more than two years since I last posted, so I’m trying to remember which buttons to press to make this happen. Life has a...

Jun 12, 20223 min read

Killing in the Name!

Who’d have thought that music could be political? Or that musicians might have political views? Let’s take the song Killing in the Name...

Apr 17, 20224 min read

Relativity!

M. C. Escher has always been one of my favourite artists. From the moment I first saw his work (I think it might have been Waterfall), I...

Apr 3, 20224 min read

The Wall!

#TIL that the iconic image of the album cover for the famous album The Wall was not actually the original cover. In fact, the text “Pink...

Mar 27, 20224 min read

All in this Together!

When I write, I sometimes have a topic in mind, and look for an interesting way to introduce it. This time, I ended up going down an...

Feb 6, 20226 min read

Lingua Franca!

Recently, I was listening to an old episode of The Skeptics Guide to the Universe, (actually, episode 803, dated 28-Nov-2020), in which...

Jan 2, 20224 min read

The Internet is on fire!

I found the image above when searching for a good image of fire, and it seemed just about perfect on multiple levels. Buster Keaton...

Dec 12, 20214 min read

The Haywain!

In the late 1980’s I liked to collect “taglines” to include in my interactions with people. While these included many “pithy” statements...

Oct 3, 20213 min read

Don't Panic!

One of the key catch-phrases of the classic “Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hitchhiker%27s_Guide_to...

Sep 26, 20215 min read

Sound and Fury!

The phrase “full of sound sound and fury, signifying nothing” is part of one of the most famous soliloquies in the English language. It...

Sep 19, 20216 min read

Risk!

Risk (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Risk_%28game%29) is one of those games that seems to endure. It’s a simple game, which is probably...

“In science, 'fact' can only mean 'confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent.' I suppose that apples might start to rise tomorrow, but the possibility does not merit equal time in physics classrooms."