McCabism

Yesterday I highlighted the inadequacies and assumptions in the scenarios which form the input for Global Climate Models (GCMs). Today, I...

On Friday of this week, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) releases the first part of its ">fourth report . Like t...

I'm off to Oxford this Thursday to see David Deutsch's talk on 'Quantum constructor theory', users.ox.ac.uk/~ppox/general/se...

Probably the best TV programme in the world, 'Top Gear' returns on BBC2 this Sunday evening. Needless to say, the programme also mar...

A few weeks ago, Autosport ran a nice piece on 'F1 cars that never raced', which included the Williams six-wheeler. Whilst the Tyrre...

From Sunday evening of this week, the weather forecasts predicted 'a widespread risk of snow and ice' in the South of England. The s...

There's been something of a brouhaha in the UK this week over the scavenging of ship-wrecked goods from Branscombe beach. A cargo ship, ...

For those who like their academic books large and compendious, a couple of interesting works have been published in the past year. Firstly, ...

I saw Eternity the other night, Like a great ring of pure and endless light. So said the poet Henry Vaughan, a short time, presumably, after...

The Culture Show returns tonight on BBC2, after a month's break, and Lauren Laverne will be presenting once more. Now, don't get me ...

Not for the first time tonight, I pondered how I can get onto Newsnight Review on BBC2. One of the panellists this week was an elegant Ameri...