This is a follow-on from my previous post about the fate of transdisciplinary scholarship in the present academy. That perhaps sounded like ...

The humanities exhibit various patterns of academic practice in today's university, but the most irritating is the "hunt for explan...

I've been very interested to watch the launch of the World Flourishing report from Harvard yesterday. The Guardian picked one of the hea...

I'm in Seoul at the moment, on an "AI Tour" of East Asia in Hong Kong, Zhuhai (China), Seoul and Taiwan. Having spent a couple...

There is a mystery as to why the most transdisciplinary science, cybernetics, never really got a hold in the university. Yes, there were wei...

I went to a concert in the Barbican a couple of weeks ago where the BBC SO played Tristan Murail's Gondwana. There were a number of othe...

There is no other productive way of thinking than to think of ourselves as a species, rather than as nations, corporations, individuals or p...