Gods and Robots
DD82 - Gods and Robots It is hard not to be fascinated by robots, machines that are capable of carrying out complex actions automatically, [...]
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07, 2025
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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
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 [...]
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03, 2025
DD65 – Remembering
The older one becomes, the more we tend to reminisce with friends about past events – both achievements and failures. Memory is tricky, in [...]
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09, 2024
Against Interpretation
Against Interpretation Susan Sontag is one of those people who is surrounded by dramatically divided opinions. She died twenty years ago, and from her [...]
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07, 2024
Throwing Light on the Matter
Throwing Light On the Matter My father was a physics teacher, and I suspect that it was in one of his collection of books [...]
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05, 2024
Colour Blind
Colour Blind Having a father who was a senior school physics teacher could have ensured all sorts of benefits. He could have helped me [...]
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04, 2024
Awakenings
Awakenings Although the evidence suggests its impact may be abating, we are all well aware of the COVID-19 pandemic, a global disease resulting from [...]
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04, 2024
What’s Going On?
What’s Going on? Browsing in the library is a dangerous pastime. I exercise this foolish endeavour in the Dickson Public Library in Canberra. Like [...]
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03, 2024
Migration
Migration Living in England, a young and decidedly amateur ornithologist, I didn’t pay much attention to annual bird migration. Like many other watchers, I [...]
