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Oct 3
1 min

Rise of the Species

As we witness the antics of politicians trying to impose their version of the truth on the pandemic or the climate emergency, we could be...

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Sep 19
1 min

Closing the Gap

Have you ever had one of those days at work when you get to the evening feeling exhausted and used up only to look back and wonder what y...

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Sep 5
1 min

The Mitosis Paradox

Historians might one day look back on our world and be struck by its extraordinary divisions, proliferating almost daily. Recent tragic e...

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Aug 22
1 min

RUNNING TO KEEP UP

When I first started writing The Infinity Trilogy, I had to keep in mind that the book world is flooded with dystopian fables about every...

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Apr 5
2 min

The Luck of Nations

If, like me, you’ve found yourself seeking comfort in pouring over the daily feed of numbers, comparing the ratio of new cases per millio...

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Feb 1
2 min

Easier to Lie?

You’ve no doubt heard what banks say about debts: when your customer owes you $1,000 it’s their problem if they can’t pay it back. But wh...

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Nov 23, 2019
2 min

50 Shades of Truth

It’s a cliché that the truth is often a subtle, nuanced thing. Rather than some binary choice it is more often something relative to cont...

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Oct 30, 2019
2 min

Arts & Business

Best selling biographer Helgar Osmath has no love for big business. Her passion is for those interesting characters who stand out from th...

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Oct 5, 2019
2 min

What Price the Maverick?

When it comes down to it, what we believe is largely determined by a market. We sometimes shop there, looking for answers to the many que...

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Sep 21, 2019
2 min

Who Can Change the World?

The question begs many others. What kind of change are we talking about? Climate change, political change, social change? And how much ch...

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Aug 25, 2019
2 min

Trust Before Truth?

When confronted with that well-known lifeboat test, who would you choose and why? Are you looking to save others, for others to save you ...

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Aug 10, 2019
1 min

Who Cares About the Truth?

Are you suffering from truth fatigue? When Priests and Presidents can’t be trusted to honour it any more it’s no surprise that we retreat...

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Feb 1, 2019
1 min

Extreme Diversity

Everything that can happen will happen. It’s a neat solution to the core problem with evolution - why did it happen at all? The theory go...

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Jan 20, 2019
2 min

Love on the Spectrum

Not so long ago there was little true understanding of mental health. Diagnosis & treatments for many conditions did not exist or at best...

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Jan 13, 2019
2 min

The Bending of Light

As most of us know, black holes are said to be concentrations of energy & matter which have such enormous power of attraction that they sw...

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Jan 6, 2019
1 min

Azzard's Equation

Equations are amazing things, endowed with a concentration of meaning and delivered in perfect balance they are sadly often beyond the un...

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Dec 29, 2018
1 min

Sins & Sains

The fact that we have no word for the opposite of a sin reveals how skewed our system of moral judgement has become and how biased it is ...

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Dec 11, 2018
1 min

'What Dreams May Come..

..when we have shuffled off this mortal coil?’ Roughly translated, Shakespeare was asking through the mouthpiece of his tormented prince,...

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Nov 8, 2018
1 min

Can Thoughts Be Infinite?

So the argument goes that because our brains are finite physical things, they can only model similarly finite things, we simply cannot im...

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