One of the justifications for the extreme measures taken by governments during the COVID crisis is "This is like a war". Increasi...

Angst and confusion about education is hardly new, but there is a lot of angst and confusion about almost everything at the moment. Critique...

Often I find that the ideas which really change my life are not "new" ideas to me, but things which are revealed through reading a...

The following quotes are taken from the introduction by George Klir to Roger Conant's "Mechanisms and Intelligence: Ashby's wri...

Conviviality is a state of being between members of group whose work within that group is felt by all to be meaningful, cohesive and enliven...

I attended an interesting talk before Christmas on music and structure at Liverpool's PhD music discussion group (which is great fun!). ...

One of the best things I watched on terristrial TV this new year was the Parliament channel's recording of a special meeting to discuss ...