A Theory of Everything
A Theory of Everything When I was at school, it all seemed so simple. The physical world, at the smallest level, was made up [...]
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02, 2026
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02, 2026
Lost Connections
Lost Connection Every so often I read an article or a book that seems to capture the current moment and does so in a [...]
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01, 2026
Muesli and Other Grumbles
Muesli and other grumbles For years I made my own muesli. It was easy: to a base of rolled oats, wheat bran, and wheat [...]
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12, 2025
Brick by Brick
Brick by Brick It must be a strange sight for a young child, to be confronted by a pile of plastic bricks, with no [...]
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11, 2025
Descartes Bones
Descartes’ Bones There are many challenges in writing about other people, especially those whose ideas have become important to you, or more widely. The [...]
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10, 2025
Six Great Ideas
Six Great Ideas I wonder if anyone reads Mortimer Adler today. For a while he was an influential and also popular philosopher, often referred [...]
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10, 2025
Caravaggio
Caravaggio Why do we become especially focussed on some artists or, to be more precise, on some works of art? There is often no [...]
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07, 2025
Dancing Cockatoos
DD60 - Dancing Cockatoos and the Dead Man Test Sometimes I read something that comes to me from ‘out of left field’. It’s an [...]
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06, 2025
Truth
Truth When Felipe Fernandez-Armesto wrote his book Truth, he added a comment at the bottom of the book cover: “A History and a Guide [...]
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06, 2025
Why Pain is Necessary
Antonio Damasio Tells Us Why Pain Is Necessary I’ve broken my usual rule, and copied this extract from an article with the same name [...]
