Me? Boring?
I’m sorry to say I missed this year’s annual Boring Conference (Holborn, 31st May 2014). Established in the wake of the cancellation of the Interesting Conference 2010, together with the […]
The Googlesque God
If you think about it, Google is now practically omniscient – it knows pretty much everything. Ask it anything, and it will usually find you an answer. But there’s also […]
iWatch: where will it take us?
The unveiling this week of Apple’s smart watch has ignited a huge debate at the tech-world and the internet in general. Many excelent pieces analysing this new technological leap and how […]
Skepticism is blind to itself
Skeptics are finding skepticism hard to take serious lately. Take The Spectator’s recent parody of Richard Dawkins, for instance. In an article named The bizarre – and costly – cult […]
U2, Newton, and Jesus’ Grace
In 2001 the rock band U2 released ‘All That You Can’t Leave Behind’. The album won 7 Grammy Awards and was voted number 139 on Rolling Stone magazine’s list of ‘The […]
Under the Scalpel of Grace
Trail running for some would seem like an unusual way to enjoy free time but for me it’s a moment when I feel so alive. So when a very tiny […]
Yearning to Make Sense of Things
Might, many wondered, these silent pinpricks of light in the velvet darkness of the heavens disclose something deeper about the origins and goals of life?
Is desire something good or bad?
I’ve been doing some reading on Buddhism, and what a blast I’m having. Doctrines shine when placed next to an equivalent: contrasts emerge, colors become vivid, contours more precise.’ Take […]
So Real, it’s Surreal…
I’m writing this article in the study of some German friends, having arrived from Adelaide in Australia to their little German village, Bad Mergentheim, yesterday. Maybe it’s partly because of […]
A City-Sized Vision
As we have all been noticing, the world is urbanized and globalized again. After centuries of regional economic systems, stable trade, nation state politics, and homogeneous populations, our planet is […]
Wondering Fair 