The People's Economics

Has a door which is very similar to that it H.G. Wells's The Door in the Wall

A child goes through a door and plays in a paradisical world for an afternoon. The door appears for him again at various times through his life, but...

Eustace, having turned into a dragon, is turned back into a boy by having his dragon skin removed, illustrating Lewis's idea that grace was within...

Anna Henchman shows how new scientific discoveries came as a breath of fresh air. It wasn't just scientists who were interested, any educated person...

Milton mentions planet Earth , giving a nod to the heliocentric rather than geocentric model of the solar system. It's hard to appreciate just how...

C.S. Lewis expresses the wish that the medieval model of the universe shouldn't just be thrown out because it has been superseded.

Walter Lewin says that failing to teach physics students about the science of rainbows is criminal.

Rubens is not to be blamed for ignorance of optics, but for never having so much as looked at a rainbow carefully

Describes how those who we think of as part of the romantic movement were deeply interested in the new scientific discoveries.

Mary Shelley's classic work, which I would say that Frankenstein is much more a woman's look at how a man might treat the task of bringing a new...

A look at how the strange ideas of quantum theory have developed.

Feynman describing some episodes from his life

Tolkien's classic, from which I have quite a few quotes in System 3 thinking

I have no intention of trying to read this work.

A classic by Dr Seuss, but unlike the tricksterish Cat in the Hat, we realize that Sam-I-am is working for those in power.

Dr Seuss's classic work, introducing that trickster figure The Cat in the Hat

The title of Hyde's book shows the purpose of the trickster, not to lay down the path of righteousness, but to stop the world becoming ossified and...

I don't buy into Rubenstein's claim that we should treat economic ideas the way we treat stories.

Landsberg is a bit too keen to believe his own stories

Boethius claiming that life in prison isn't so bad after all. I'm not convinced.

Karl Popper's criticism of Plato and Marx

Reviewed by J. G. F. Powell at
So I comment on Powell reviewing Gorman describing Cicero's interpretation of Socrates.

One of those rare books that actually question whether Socrates' arguments were in any way persuasive

Entertaining introduction to probability. Unfortunately it seems hard to get hold of a copy today.

Contains the following viewpoint of Florence Nightingale
To understand God's thoughts we must study statistics, for these are the measure of His...