McCabism

In terms of mathematical physics, civilisation is a deterministic non-linear dynamical system far-from thermodynamic equilibrium, and human ...

Physicist Lee Smolin pens an article for New Scientist on the principles which, he believes, should underlie a multicultural society : The o...

Scientism is the purported belief that science provides the only source of knowledge and understanding of the world, and the only source of ...

The wonderful Richard Dawkins is back with a new TV series, Dawkins on Darwin , and, to celebrate this imminent broadcasting milestone, The ...

Holy crap. It's the Glade Electronic Dance Music Festival this weekend. Sadly, the weather has cleared up, and all I can hear, and feel...

Bravely, Elberry has decided to publish a university essay he wrote on TS Eliot. This sent me down to the basement, past the various women ...

There are in the order of 100 billion (10 11 ) stars in a typical spiral galaxy, such as our own Milky Way. Only about a thousand of these ...

Alabaster animate, Lauren's flaxen beauty liquifies my heart, and pours it as a superfluid fruit-smoothie into a pit of longing. "A...

The wonderfully urbane and erudite Dr Karl continues to facilitate the uncovering of some delightful scientific miscellany on his Radio 5 ph...

The Dark Ages is the period of cosmic history in which there was no visible light in the universe. When the universe was about 380,000 years...

"I offered the BRDC the opportunity to renew their contract, but they felt they were not in a position to do so," said Bernie Eccl...