One of the topics I think I need to understand more is the reality or otherwise of human impact on climate change. My knowledge of that to date has been limited to the overwhelming media bias towards our culpability in that regard, and our consequent responsibility to decrease CO2 emissions. South African Lewis Pugh astonished…
Mixed with the great speeches at TED, there are plenty of duds. But this one is a wonderful description of the way conductors communicate with their orchestras. Itay Talgam compares the techniques of von Karajan, Bernstein and others. It’s just a pity he didn’t include Danny Kaye!
Here’s a simple thing really, but it struck me as a neat summary. I was gazing over the shoulder of a fellow passenger on the train home this evening and in her book I read … An unconscious choice is a reaction.A conscious choice is a response.
Someone recently said to me “Some people go to church for their religion, but I get my religious nourishment while canoeing”. She wasn’t a friend — in fact it was the first time we had met — so I couldn’t delve into what she meant, but it set me to wondering. All I could say…
Back in the mid-90’s Larry Tooke mentioned to me — in fact he was thinking about doing his Master on the topic — that you could run a LAN via the electricity cabling that was already in place in your house/office/school. That’s now been commercialised (HomePlug for example) and I guess largely redundant now that…
While reading Memoirs of Moving On by Dorothy McRae-McMahon, I found this passage incredible. It is rare to find such an unambiguous example of the super-natural. Dorothy had a son Christopher who, at two years of age, went into autistic withdrawal and stopped speaking entirely. The cause was undiagnosed until much later, when Dorothy’s sister…
Suppose you wanted to write about what God is really like, about God’s intention for us, about why God lets us suffer. Being a good storyteller, you decide to get the message across by weaving a dialog with God into a fictional setting. So you come up with a gripping story line and then put…
