Media & the Markets
The market without news. The markets & the media go hand-in-hand, but finding an article that explains this clearly is like searching for a needle in a stack of needles. [this blog-post isn't it...
View ArticleBBC Unbiased = Wrong
By Motm Every day we are bombarded by adverts, hoardings, commercial breaks, product placements ,Google and online cookies to buy the latest things or follow the latest diet or medical advice. Add to...
View ArticleMore on Man
‘For very truth, I am not fully determined with myself whether I will put forth my book or no. For the natures of men be so divers, the fantasies of some so wayward, their minds so unkind, their...
View ArticleAnother Omni Shambles
By Motm But don’t worry those who missed it there will be another two along in a moment! I am of course referring to the very recent police commissar elections, the biggest non-election it seems in...
View ArticleProduct Entropy
Red diesel isn’t what it was, anyone working farm machinery these days will tell you so. A loaf of real bread -as opposed to the standard supermarket muck- will cost you almost double. Over the course...
View ArticleTime’s Arrow
We are mortal beings. Our lives are linear and each of us have had a beginning and will have an end. Because of this, we -in the west- tend to interpret the world in the same way; we assume the...
View Article2013: The Tipping Point
Production values are certainly up, but I do wonder where the EU people are going to go with this in 2013? Mixing plasma cosmology with comparative mythology was always going to be a risky strategy:...
View ArticleRupert Sheldrake: “Science Set Free”
Part 1 of a talk by Rupert Sheldrake at the conference ELECTRIC UNIVERSE 2013: The Tipping Point, in Albuquerque, New Mexico. “Many scientists like to think that science already understands the ways of...
View ArticleA European Asterix?
“The idea of Europe is dying, yet the sense of identity is strong -at least in intellectual elites. Perhaps it is less so among the common people, used to celebrating as heroes people who killed...
View ArticleConversation in Babylon
From ‘How to Travel with a Salmon and Other Essays’ by Umberto Eco (Between the Tigris and the Euphrates, in the shade of the Hanging Gardens, not many thousands of years ago) URUK: How do you like the...
View ArticleConspiracy Meme Gold
The evolutionary model of cultural information transfer is based on the concept that units of information, or “memes”, have an independent existence, are self-replicating, and are subject to selective...
View ArticleKnow Thy Enemy
“When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do, sir?” John Maynard Keynes Almost to a man, the four main parties in UK politics -Lib Lab Con SNP- all repeat the following mantra with little...
View ArticleMyth of the Flat Earth
Wikipedia is finally catching up at last. Myth of the Flat Earth. “Since the early 20th century, a number of books and articles have documented the flat earth error as one of a number of widespread...
View ArticleDoes Fear Still Sell?
I think the ‘bobos’ have had their chips to be honest. If there’s hope, it lies with the proles. “Concern about the environment is legitimate, but catastrophism transforms us into cowering children....
View ArticleHead in the Clouds
They call it progress: “Just a year after launching its $50-per-month plan, Adobe has made its Creative Cloud the only way to get the new versions of its full software suite. Customers “overwhelmingly”...
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