I bumped into a quote by Frank Zappa on Sunday. It was: “The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it’s profitable to continue the illusion. At the point…
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China has a population of just over 1.4 billion people with a density of 151 people per square kilometre, while the United States has a population of just over 347…
In my palaeontological peregrinations, I occasionally refer to papers that may be everything from months to nearly two centuries old. For instance, one of the seminal papers in the early…
I wrote a rant a while ago about how the Russian invasion of Ukraine has developed into a very different war with drones of various types forming a huge part…
In March 2018, David Roberts wrote a piece in Vox bemoaning the state of the op-ed page of the New York Times; the main thrust being that these pages do…