A glimpse into early French ‘talkies’..
Recently, I've been doing a lot of research on early French 'Talkie' films, not only as background for my 1930's crime series, which has a...
A few words about American talk radio (and related topics)
In this month's Atlantic Monthly David Foster Wallace has a long article on Los Angeles talk radio host John Ziegler. DFW (as fans like to...
A nuclear power hypothetical
This post is inspired by a suggestion from reader Steve on my previous post about serious playfulness as a way of promoting constructive blog debate....
Serious playfulness at the brain gym
I initially posted the following as a comment to my recent post on global warming. But I think it's worth creating a separate discussion thread:...
Dr Jayant Patel: Butcher of Bundaberg Hostpital
Writing my column I try to follow a fairly standard formula editors seem to really want this of commenting on topical events. Sometimes I find...
If You Haven’t Got Anything Nice to Say – Sit Down Here
The art of the obit is a tricky one and potential exponents have had a field day recently what with Joh - a unique amalgam...
Cognitive dissonance
Cognitive dissonance and its subset confirmation bias are behaviours of which all of us are guilty, probably more often that we like to admit even...