metastases

I’ve just finished “Intuition” David G Myers, which is a brisk and fascinating canter through the academic study of intuition, “direct knowledge…..immediate insight with observation or reason”, for better and for worse. Often worse, because our intuition can be profoundly misleading. It’s full of interesting things some of which will probably find their [...]

Isn’t the web wonderful? In the last couple of days I have found answers to the questions below, often in less than a minute.
Which UK university philosophy departments are well-thought-of by whom and which offer distance learning post-grad degrees?
Where is a philosopher named Janet Radcliffe Richards now working?
What is the chemical formula of mariposite [...]

Warning: newt-brain post coming up.
Colin has been spending time recently discussing the nature of art here and here; I have, willy-nilly, got to think a bit about it too. In the course of the discussion, the old cliché arose: “I don’t know anything about art, but I know what I like” (no, neither of us [...]

I’ve got too much STUFF. I have this romantic image of how nice it would be to live in a small and almost entirely empty place. Perhaps almost empty apart from books. And rocks. And laptops. Sigh. I can perfectly well do without STUFF. When I travel, I usually [...]

I was just going to send an email today around lunchtime, but had luckily not quite logged on, when the lights flickered once and died. As it was blowing a gale and lashing with rain at the time, this was not very surprising; it happens to us quite a lot in winter.
The usual routine [...]

Just going down into the paclitaxel trough. I can feel my mental agility and stamina draining away. Can’t quite decide what to do next.
Heaps (literally) of interesting books to read but would just be skimming which becomes frustrating. Probably some crappy or at least lightweight books to read, but they’re downstairs and [...]