by Tom | Aug 17, 2010 | Personal, Science
Life on the waiting list is a series about a kidney transplant. (It is slightly wrong that this is in the Life and Style section of the Grauniad: there’s not much stylish about it.) I have a friend with exactly the same condition (IgA nephropathy) as the author....
by Tom | Aug 16, 2010 | Reading, Science
Sholto has some interesting things to say about the appeal of various religions in The “market appeal” of Ramadan. I can very much imagine that the more demanding, more regular community-oriented religions will hold on to believers more readily. I wonder...
by Tom | Aug 13, 2010 | Personal, Science
I wonder what more anyone needs than watching the meteors streak overhead. Tiny grains of sand burning up in the skies are just brilliant (ho ho). And that we can explain and predict them over thousands of years. Class. And beautiful beyond belief.
by Tom | Aug 4, 2010 | Reading, Science
Forgotten characters tells a fascinating story of the gradual erosion of the use of characters among the Chinese. Amazing how technology affects communication which affects language which affects thought.
by Tom | Jul 7, 2010 | Science
The Paradox of Parenting links to a number of articles about happiness and parenting. I’m never particularly happy about subjective measures, so there’s something fishy in there from the start. That said, I like it when people broach difficult to raise...
by Tom | Jul 7, 2010 | Reading, Science
I’m not sure the (paraphrased) “movement to exclude anyone who thinks that science and religion are incompatible” is more than a straw man, but there are some good points in the article. We certainly need to promulgate a regular non-religious way of...
