With the technologies that we have today, it is possible to communicate on a large scale in a much richer way than has ever been available ...

There's been a lot of stuff in the news recently about the threats posed by Big Data, AI, etc. "Computers will take our jobs!...

Update: 25/9/16: A more complete version of this post is here: https://www.academia.edu/s/b6902593d0/the-status-of-scientific-publicati...

Inspecting the looming world of financialised housing in 1959, Aneurin Bevan gave a speech to the Labour Party conference: I have enough ...

At #altc this year (which I didn't attend) there was a keynote given by Lia Commissar (@misscommissar) about the brain and learning. B...

A while ago I wrote a computer program which analysed the midi signals coming from my piano as I improvised, and made a range of entropy ca...

When something surprising happens - be it some kind of accident, a transformation, a joke - we can rationalise it and identify the causes f...