A match in the darkness
‘A satisfactory philosophy of ignorance’ I’d never heard of Richard Feynman when I picked up a book of his in
Tag: scientism
What has art ever done for science?
There’s a good post under this title at the Wellcome Trust blog—thanks Chris Fremantle—describing some of the ways that art
Regular Marvels, in Theory (RMT)
Originally posted on Regular Marvels:
One reason for creating Regular Marvels is to look for better ways of writing about people’s experience…
For the good of the others
‘Inform, educate and entertain’ This week, Radio 4 has been broadcasting a series of 45-minute programmes by Melvyn Bragg under the title The
Memories worth having
Is it worth it A new winter coat and shoes for the wife And a bicycle on the boy’s birthday
Science, stories and truth
Frances Ashcroft: “I’m fascinated by this divorce of philosophy from science because I think that in a way we’re all
‘Billy, Me & You’
Last autumn Nicola Streeten published her first comic book. Billy, Me & You is about a couple coming to terms
Pixelated death
Bad guys in movies used to come to sticky ends, in a bloody hammering of bullets or falling off tall
On ‘the very idea of measuring cultural value’
There is a new blog on the DCMS website by Claire Donovan, an academic at Brunel University who has been
Parliament of Dreams 