Continue? How Gaming Helped me Deal with Depression

Yes, I know; we killed the blog dead due to our fear of an impending oil crash. We said we’d never post anything again. We bought a farm in Maine and began stocking up on tinned food and ammunition.  Well, we lied. But it was only a little white lie. This article by Jordan Salari [...]

A Universal Misunderstanding

“Not only is the Universe stranger than we think, it is stranger than we can think.” – Werner Heisenberg Brian Cox, the man who manages to bring CERN to the BBC a few Sundays each year, is marvellous. Carl Sagan, the don of 20th century cosmology and humanism, is equally so. And yet, Daily Telegraph [...]

Nuclear Futures

I’ve just got back from a lecture delivered by Ward Wilson, Senior Fellow at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies, Monterey Institute of International Studies, entitled “Nuclear Weapons: Six Fundamental Challenges to the Current Consensus?”. It was certainly an enlightening lecture and a welcome inducement to some grey matter acrobatics on the part of the audience. I [...]

Space, The Final (Socialist) Frontier…

In the long run we’re all dead – so said Keynes. And in the longer run so is our entire species. The sum of human endeavour in art, culture, literature, engineering, architecture and iphone apps will be cleansed from the universal consciousness. It doesn’t matter whether we get hit by a meteor, boil the planet by [...]

The Doom Machine, Black Holes and The Universe

“There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.” – Shakespeare In the face of continued interrogation over his assertion that it was not impossible for a divine being to have had a hand in creating the universe, suggested in his 1988 classic A Brief History of Time, [...]