Here is a circular going round from the London School of Economics:
Here is a circular going round from the London School of Economics:
A wonder of our Age is the way in which smart people can gather speedily round a good piece of writing out there on the Web and chew it over, to and fro, looking at the issues it raises and how they link to other issues. When it works well, […]
Respect has to be earned. And it can be lost. Especially by scientists. I’ve been on long-running projects, especially some years ago, where people start to lose track of which numbers came from where (and when), where the underlying raw data are stored, and the history of various assumptions and […]
An alert reader points out that I mischaracterised the ringing words of Edit Herczog in the European Parliament, as she compared UKIP’s Nigel Farage MEP to a tree-ascending monkey revealing its bottom for all to behold. She did not say Mr Farage, I’d like to say something, Hungarian quotation for […]
A Saddam Hussein TV channel has been launched. The BBC gets reactions: An Iraqi member of parliament, Jaber Habib Jaber, condemned what he called the channel’s "glorification of a tyrant". So far so good. One Baghdad resident told the BBC that the channel has become his favourite even though watching […]
Honduras has voted and in significant numbers. A good round-up here. The US State Department: We commend the Honduran people for peacefully exercising their democratic right to select their leaders in an electoral process that began over a year ago, well before the June 28 coup d’etat. Turnout appears to […]
Physics-free David Miliband: The idea that the UK can maintain its influence in Beijing or Washington or Delhi or Moscow if we marginalise ourselves in Europe is frankly fanciful. In fact I would say the opposite; through leadership in Europe we augment our bilateral ties with other countries. Alone, we […]
Via Samizdata this link to a magnificent address by C S Lewis back in 1944, The Inner Ring (scroll down towards the bottom to find it). This masterpiece is all about the idea that whever you are – school, work, art, politics – there is always an ‘inner ring’ of people […]
Let’s start at the top, with Climategate. A great mass of original material is hacked or leaked from a key UK Climate Research Unit. Those who want urgent action of different sorts on climate change are exhibiting unease, insisting that it is all a fuss about next to nothing […]
Partly because it was designed not to work precisely in the normal way we might think of precision. I think. Huh? Yes folks. Welcome to this excellent piece by Joel Spolsky from way back in 2002 about Leaky Abstractions. I don’t understand it. But it is elegantly written. What a […]
