The market for kidneys in Iran

by | Jul 19, 2010 | Reading

Unexpectedly, a relatively light-touch regulated market in live kidney donations does not lead to a high donation rate. More in The market for kidneys in Iran.

Not good in paywall land

by | Jul 16, 2010 | Business, Reading

‘Why would I get any of my clients to talk to the Times or the Sunday Times if they are behind a paywall? Who can see it? I can’t even share a link and they aren’t on search. It’s as though their writers don’t exist anymore.’” via What’s...

Increasingly hard to be a Catholic

by | Jul 15, 2010 | Reading

Wow, how do you stitch that one together in your psyche? We are sure that the vast majority of the general public will share in our abject horror at the Vatican’s decision to categorise the ordination of women as an ‘offence’ in the same category as...

We are all simulations, most likely

by | Jul 8, 2010 | Personal, Reading

Philosophy at its best. Matrix: spot on?In summary: at least one of the following arguments must be true.Almost all civilisations at our level of development become extinct before becoming technologically mature.The fraction of technologically mature civilisations...