I have seen the off-ramp and it works
From my Substack newsletter. Extraordinary images are being detected within the early pictures taken by the James Webb Space Telescope. As you know, the JWST went in...
Needing The Eggs: 70 Years Of Going Through The Motions
I've recently completed an essay and like quite a few of my essays, it's not been 'optimised' for publication in a magazine, so I may...
The Great Covid Panic: now out!
It's here, the booklet I am sure you have all been waiting for. The one which Gigi Foster and Michael Baker slaved over for 10...
Midnight’s Library
[caption id="attachment_35167" align="alignright" width="345"] The graphic from the nifty NYT review. [/caption] On the strength of nothing more than the fact that it's Audible's free...
Unseen trends and the society we are becoming.
Societies are evolving and complex, which often makes it hard to see at any moment where things are going. It was thus with the move...
Lockdowns and privilege
Consider three graphs that really on their own tell the story of the groups in the US/UK that did well and that did badly economically...
Pragmatic utilitarianism?
I have been a utilitarian for about 30 years now and am seen in my academic work as an extreme version of the genre. I...