The People's Economics

In The People's Economics I discuss how arguments hardly ever seem to be persuasive. They seem more about scoring some sort of points. So how can...

I'm interested in protein folding and similar topics - the processes which form the basis of life on the microscale - and one of the important...

Isaac Newton is well known as a scientific genius. But trying to understand his thought processes is difficult, partly because the presentation of...

I'm interested in the history of science, and so I thought this book would be worth a try - hopefully it will be an entertaining read. After reading...

I'm interested in whether there are any books discussing whether philosophy is deliberately wordy and hard to follow, when one could envisage...

Newtonian physics is fairly intuitive: there are forces which cause things to move the way they do. But this behaviour can also be framed in terms of...

Pirates are a favourite element of stories, and they aren't just seen as the bad guys. Why do we feel the need to glorify criminals such as these? Do...

A book titled What we cannot know seems like it ought to be an informative and entertaining read, telling of where science is going and what its...

There was much hype when the human genome was sequenced, but there are claims that what was promised in the way of new treatments for diseases has...

One hears a lot about science vs religion. Creationists are trying to argue that the earth was created a few thousand years ago. 'New' atheists...