Freud said being immobile, after our birth, creates an association between mobility and problem solving. Our first big problem is that we can’t move.
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Freud said being immobile, after our birth, creates an association between mobility and problem solving. Our first big problem is that we can’t move.
Three hundred years ago, Jonathan Swift wrote about scientists trying to make pillows from marble and food from faeces. If Swift was able to take scientists with a pinch of sodium chloride, why can’t we?
I have a problem.
How do I stretch ‘Wow!’ into a one thousand-word article?
Ok, how’s this for starters: ‘Wow, wow… and wow, again!’?
Throughout most of the 20th century some scientists, including the highly esteemed astronomer, Percival Lowell, were convinced there were canals on Mars.
Seven hundred years ago, Dante Alighieri told us that the deepest level of the Inferno consists not of fire, but ice.
How do scientists manage to average daily variations of tens of degrees and then tell us that the planet has become 0.5 °C hotter in the last one hundred years?
New Zealand’s Milford Sound exposes the inadequacy of photography, and memory.
Did I actually see that? Did I actually do that?
And who made all this?
When you go to Hawaii don’t forget to pack your winter woollies. (I was there last week. It was minus five.) But DO forget the cliché beach-resorts, the Surfers’ Paradise of Surfers’ Paradises.
Solicitors and purveyors of insurance love small print, and, when it comes to keeping themselves employed, so do some scientists.
THERE is a fine line between science and religion, and as British scientist Thomas Huxley once said, "Science commits suicide when it adopts a creed."
Has the greenhouse effect become a creed?
