In our social media age, misinformation can spread like wildfire creating an ecosystem of reality denial, where truth has become subordinate to ideology and feelings […] Read More
Category: Book Review
Judith Curry’s book Climate Uncertainty and Risk aims to provide a framework for understanding the climate change ‘debate’. She argues that the climate change problem […] Read More
“Treating the world as if we intended to stay”, to quote Crispin Tickell, neatly summarises the growing recognition that we need to respond to the […] Read More
In simpler times we used have community dances. Boys would congregate along one wall of the dance hall, and the girls on the other. Those […] Read More
Husband and wife team Will and Ariel Durant spent forty years writing their celebrated eleven-volume history The Story of Civilization. In the process they made […] Read More
Western urban dwellers like me take for granted that we can buy whatever food takes our fancy by just popping down to our local shopping […] Read More
Rome was sacked by Gaul invaders in 390 BC, and in the 210s BC the Carthaginian general Hannibal wreaked havoc on the Italian Peninsula. Yet […] Read More
What did the Russian, Ottoman and Chinese empires share in common in the 15th and 20th Centuries? In the 15th century all three shunned the […] Read More
In 1621, the Dutch East Indies Company virtually exterminated the native people of the Bandu Islands in order to seize a monopoly on the lucrative […] Read More
The setup of the movie Don’t Look Up is recognizable enough: Two low-level astronomers (played by Jennifer Lawrence and Leonardo DiCaprio) discover a comet which […] Read More