McCabism

The Rafa-lution is wearing thin, Sir Alex Ferguson is sporting a large grin, The fans are tiring of Dirk Kuyt, The journalists fear your san...

The people featured on Grand Designs are awfully bourgeois and middle-brow, don't you think? Their property aspirations, I find, are ge...

Whilst the death of an individual constitutes a mental singularity , it's also worth noting that prior to reaching such an endpoint, dif...

I am sitting alone in the small seminar room on the tenth floor. This is known as 'Harry's room'. I am at the head of a long oak...

The tree of life , it seems, is no more than a first approximation, and must be supplanted by the web of life . This week's New Scientis...

Psychological time is a notoriously malleable quantity. I hardly seem to spend any time waiting in supermarket checkout queues these days, b...

Modern philosophical legend, Adolf Grunbaum , considers the question, Why is there something rather than nothing? to be a pseudo-problem, a...

A couple of years ago, McCabism featured the Terrafugia Flying Car , and the promise that it would be available for purchase in 2009. Sadly,...

Bryan Appleyard has an article on Darwin and natural selection in The Sunday Times newspaper, which quotes, without reproach, Dr David Men...

I love listening to Ron Dennis. Whilst Ronspeak comes with a certain level of corporate cliche, and its use of prosaic circumlocution can b...